Absolutely true. However people are trying to pin the cost of the rise solely upon HCA. When in reality it has been climbing ridiculously and far out of line with other first world countries since 1980. For the most part I think most companies are seeing the HCA as a convenient way to offload a large portion of their obligation (obligation only in the fact that many employees expect companies to provide insurance, so since everyone else is doing it, so must the company in question) to the individual and avoid the blame. "We are sorry that you are having to pick up more of the tab, its all that Obama's fault." When I honestly believe, that if you took a look at the cost of insurance, specifically the information pertaining to %age increases year over year and the lack of uniformly increasing growth, something had to budge. That budge is American's wallets and their responsibility for taking a larger role in their own health care.
Information regarding health care cost increases: http://kff.org/health-costs/issue-b...in-the-united-states-selected-oecd-countries/
Edit: I am sure most here know I am not against the concept of HCA. I am disappointed that the private industry metastasized within the implementation of it. Insurance companies play a huge role in the cost of care skyrocketing.
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