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 »