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>> welcome back. if you depend on your employer for healthcare change it could all change. under obama care businesses have a huge cost saving reason to cut employee healthcare. diane mass is heed macedo has t. >> under president obama's healthcare reformula companies would say billio save billions dumping healthcare. the report found if the companies ditched their coverage and instead paid the 2,000 dollar per employee penalty they would actually make money on the deal. we are not talking pennies here. according to the report in 2014 alone the companies surveyed would save on average $400 mil...

That's why balances are up. >> fascinating information. companies are saying they will prefer to pay fines to the government rather than include employees on healthcare programs as a result of the obama healthcare law. >> this is exclusive information that fox obtained meant to go to house republicans. it found companies with around 6 million employees they say 29 billion in the first year if they pay that fine with government healthcare exchange ore the course of a decade $422 billion. >> so many of the large companies are self insured. they don't know the risk they would rather have the gove...

Correspondent is on this in washington, dc. jim? >> hello, that is right a new stay of the largest employers finds that the new health care law created some powerful incentives for them to drop their insurance plans. >> the pure dollars and cents standpoint it could not be more clear you save a lot of money, hundreds of millions for some of the companies. >>reporter: republicans on the house of representatives, on the house ways and means committee, said 71.9 million employees responded and the company stands to save $28.6 billion in 2014 ray lone, by shifting employees to government exchanges...

In a fox news exclusive. jim? >> reporter: hello, megyn. the new survey finds the new health care law created some perverse incentives for employers to drop their insurance plans. listen. >> in a pure dollars and cents standpoint, it could not be more clear. you save a lot of money, hundreds of millions of dollars for some of these companies, by no longer providing coverage. >> reporter: now, republicans on the house ways and means committee surveyed the fortune 100 companies about their health care costs. 71 companies with 5.9 million employees responded. even after paying a penalty of $2,000...

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