NEWS FLASH

The Problem With The McKinsey ‘Employers Will Drop Coverage’ Survey | The GOP has been making a lot of the McKinsey survey, which found that 30 percent of employers could drop coverage as a result of the Affordable Care Act, so Time’s Kate Pickert did the sensible thing and called up McKinsey “to ask about the methodology behind the employer survey.” They declined to comment on how the study was conducted, but Pickert picked up on this key nugget which may suggested that the group “may have primed respondents to say they would keep or drop coverage”: “…Our survey educated respondents about [employer sponsored insurance] implications for their companies and employees before they were asked about post-2014 strategies.”