Sanlam, a life assurer, suggests that firms with comprehensive health policies may also avoid sharp rises in life, disability and medicalinsurancepremiums.
According to the Census Bureau, most of the uninsured could afford to buy health insurance, but they chose instead to pay their medical bills from the savings of annual premiums.
While ObamaCare won't take full effect until 2014, health-insurance premiums in the individual market are already rising, and not just because of routine increases in medical costs.