How Many Businesses Could Get A Health Insurance Mandate?

Some more questions we should ask

1) How many of the 1,376,285 firms with payroll over $250,000 are already providing enough health care to avoid any additional "fine" payment?

2) How many of the 509,354 firms with more than 25 employees are already providing enough health care to avoid any additional "fine" payment?

3) Why, if we worship the "employer-based" system of health insurance in America, should the employees of any small companies be left out---and subsidized instead by taxpayers through MediCaid or SCHIP or emergency rooms? Why is providing "welfare" care to employees not a form of government subsidy to small employers who can therefore hire workers more cheaply than their larger competitors?

4) How many employers have dropped health insurance for their employees in the last five years or forced their workers into less-comprehensive plans?

5) And, why would a single-payer system not be a wonderful thing for ALL employers who could them wash their hands of this burden altogether?

Muser of NM @ Jul 28, 2009 21:21:10 PM