She started by telling him that a majority of businesses already insure their workers.
If you're an employer and you aren't insuring your workers at all, you'll have to pay more.
These corporations are lobbying hard against any bill that would require them to insure all their workers.
A requirement that employers insure all their workers or contribute to a fund to cover them died early on.
In the case of health savings accounts, the key side consequence is a reduced incentive for companies to insure their workers.
Businesses that do not insure workers would pay a stiffer 2.5 percent payroll assessment.
Compelling employers to insure their workers was central to the President's plan, and stirred deadly opposition from small business.
The federation is mainly opposed to the requirement that all employers would have to insure their workers.
He will soon introduce a bill to cope with the problems small-business owners say keep them from insuring their workers.
So private insurers could not simply refuse to insure elderly workers if the Government established the clearinghouse.