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If you run a small business and employ people, under one of the proposals floating around for healthcare reform you’d be required to provide health insurance for employees.
Small Biz Trends recently posted an article regarding one of the new laws that is in process of trying to get passed, all employers being required to provide health care coverage for their employees. It is suggested that this is an unfair practice that could take part as most small businesses can not afford health care prices. I do agree with the fact that health care prices are too high.
The health care companies do need to come down off their outrageous prices. But at the same time I agree that every employer should be required to provide their employees with health care coverage. Think about, as employers we expect our employees to come to work every day on time no buts, we don’t want them sick as a dog while they are at working infecting everyone else.
How are our employees to do this every day all year or at least not be sick as often or so sick to the point they infect others due to lack of antibiotics if they have no health coverage? Have you seen some of the costs of prescriptions without insurance, or the cost of a doctors bill without insurance? We can not expect our employees to follow our standards of working conditions if we do not help them on their way as far as health coverage is concerned.
Update: Dane strongly disagrees with Jaclyn on this one. Read his explanation of why Forced Health Care is Bad Bad Bad!