The Morning Consult discusses a poll today on people’s views of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. It looks like people are moderately afraid of “employer dumping” -- employers terminating benefits and forcing employees to buy insurance policies on the exchanges. Most of them seem to think that this would have a somewhat or very negative impact on their coverage and experience. Unsurprisingly, this breaks down strongly along partisan lines: Republicans are most likely to think PPACA will negatively affect them, Democrats the least.

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But how likely is this? There are all sorts of estimates out there, but all of them are barely one step above a wild guess. We’ve never done anything like this before, so how do we know how employers will react? But there’s one thing worth noting: If you believe the poll, the very strength of the negative expectations probably makes employers less likely to do this.