Walgreen’s Pharmacy 160,000 Employees Latest ObamaCare Casualty

Companies Dropping Health Care BenefitsObamaCare Side Effects: Companies Dropping Health Insurance and Taxpayers Get the Bill –The Foundry/Heritage Foundation

(Forbes) Walgreen’s is joining 17 other large employers that have decided to give their 160,000 employees a subsidy to buy their own health insurance and dump them into the Aon Hewitt Corporate Health Exchange.

In August CNN Money reported that United Parcel Service announced that they would be discontinuing coverage for 15,000 spouses citing ObamaCare as the culprit, which mandates coverage of dependent children until the age of 26 and adds new government fees.

Yesterday I wrote here that Southern California based “Trader Joe’s” announced they will be dropping its company health care benefits for their part-time employees and instead will give them a $500 stipend to buy their own health insurance from ObamaCare/Covered California.

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