Luck would be my guess. But then, perhaps they didn't know what it all meant. Hard to believe the company has a benevolent administrator of the plan as well as the the power to be benevolent.
Three companies I can name as I sit here, IBM, UPS, Rockwell exploited the chance. Near one half the people where I live, out of 50 properties are in the same shape, screwed by Obama care,
retired from companies with names I can't pull up.
I believe the intent was to push all these people into the insurance markets to help pay for the masses of high risk people Obama wanted to sign up. I don't think the tax was even consider as a revenue source, more of a prod to move events. Most of these people were covered by plans funded by their ex employers, self insured, not buying insurance. Just guessing but somewhere around 10 to 15 million people. Shoot maybe more, my ex employer may involve nearly a million when you count wifes and some dependents.
The reason I keep banging this drum it to make people aware, it doesn't seem they know it happened to millions of people. This is major reason to follow the Constitution, where as if you want to make government responsible for a huge program like healthcare, by any logic, it should be started by an amendment to make the government responsible with the support of the Nation.
Then a proper design can be done and there will be no need for slight hand tactics, like secrecy in who is getting screwed to enable slipping it through Congress on a one party vote. No need for taxes that are nothing but a prod and or deflection. In short I think people should be forced to see the shit that Obama managed to make happen that screwed people and will fail in the end which is real near.