Interesting article on an aspect of Obamacare not thought much of before its implementation. I've known many people who either husband or wife stayed in a poor paying and dead end jobs only because it included healthcare. This is another aspect of the freedom the ACA provides to families.
"Were it not for Obamacare, Braun, 25, would be confronting a phenomenon that economists call “job lock”: when people stay in jobs they dislike, or don’t want, solely to keep their health coverage. A Harvard Business School study in 2008 estimated that 11 million workers are affected by this dilemma. Other studies show that when people don’t have to worry about health insurance, they are up to 25 percent more likely to change jobs. Obamacare was designed, in part, to fix this inefficiency in the labor market, and thanks to that association, job lock has become a political lightning rod."
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/23/magazine/how-obamacare-could-unlock-job-opportunities.html
"Were it not for Obamacare, Braun, 25, would be confronting a phenomenon that economists call “job lock”: when people stay in jobs they dislike, or don’t want, solely to keep their health coverage. A Harvard Business School study in 2008 estimated that 11 million workers are affected by this dilemma. Other studies show that when people don’t have to worry about health insurance, they are up to 25 percent more likely to change jobs. Obamacare was designed, in part, to fix this inefficiency in the labor market, and thanks to that association, job lock has become a political lightning rod."
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/23/magazine/how-obamacare-could-unlock-job-opportunities.html
