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PPACA aside, most large employers plan to keep coverage

The PPACA wasnt intended to displace employer-provided health care, of course, though critics and others have suggested it will do just that.

By Gina Binole | Updated on November 12, 2013
Darden Restaurants announced earlier this year it would move employees to the Obamacare exchanges. (Photo: AP)

Despite a few well-publicized cases of employers dropping coverage, insurance policy cancellations or even the roaring debate over what President Obama did or did not promise, it’s unlikely the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act will force or prompt very many large employers to end their insurance coverage and dump workers onto exchanges.

That is the dispassionate assessment offered by nonpartisan policy wonks, academics, government watchdogs, surveys of employers and others without a stake in the game.

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