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Originally Posted by dc_dux
The problem is that most small business do not offer health benefits to employees.
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I was actually talking about the business owners themselves. Many are schedule C filers, many are considered independent contractors, not to mention the few remaining family farmers. Some of these small business may not even have employees. They often buy individual coverage. Some small business that do have employees can not afford to offer benefit packages at a level similar to large corporations. However, they often do provide certain advantages to employees that large corporations can not offer. Those small businesses that do offer health coverage, would want to consider not offering it if their employees could obtain affordable coverage offered by government.
Your statement that Bush lied on the issue of people moving from private coverage to public coverage under this bill is false.
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Many of these employees are the lower and middle income working families who would otherwise have to purchase family health insurance on their own, which costs about $10,000-12,000/year (for a family of four), a hefty amount for a family with income in the 30s and 40s.
These are the children intended to be covered by SCHIPs.
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I do agree there is a health care crisis in this country. I only suggest the issue be addressed directly. This bill seems to be more like a new program as opposed to a re-authorization.
If we want a new program I suggest it be done right. For example, under this bill - who is covered? What are the requirements for eligibility? Why have all or nothing - seems like a person may qualify in one year and be excluded the next based on a increment of $1 of income or $1 in assets, at a cost of $10k to $12 in private coverage, and every state has different rules?????????? And you think this is a good bill???????