Health Care Bill Fact of the Day: Providing Businesses With an Incentive to End Employer-Sponsored Health Insurance

By: Jeff Emanuel (Diary)  |  August 11th at 10:30 AM  | 

The Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee’s “Affordable Health Choices Act” contains an “employer mandate,” or a legal requirement that all American businesses with 25 or more employees offer health insurance to their workers. The penalty for failing to comply with this mandate to offer employees health insurance is a $750 fine per full time worker per year. In 2008, employer-provided insurance policies averaged | Read More »

Senate Health Overhaul Bill Lays the Trillion-Dollar Groundwork for a Government Takeover of Health Care

By: Jeff Emanuel (Diary)  |  July 18th at 06:02 PM  | 

The Orwellianly-titled American Health Choices Act, a health care overhaul bill the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee passed Tuesday with a 13-10 party line vote, contains a two-pronged mechanism for increasing government’s already enormous footprint within the health care market, and for driving private insurance into the ground. When the first public draft of the American Health Choices Act (AHCA) was released | Read More »