The Senate bill has a provision requiring businesses with over 50 employees to pay a fine of $750-per-worker fine for any employee who purchases subsidized health insurance on their own. However, the provision was amended to require construction businesses with more than five employees to pay the same fine.
The construction industry says that in these lean financial times the provision will result in many of them being forced out of business.
The amendment was inserted Wednesday morning in order to garner the necessary 60 votes to pass the bill.
Construction firms are crying foul over the provision that treats them differently from every other business with fewer than 50 employees.
Our Senators' solution for the problem of those approximately 20 million individuals who want a health care plan but can't afford it is to force everyone to buy a health care plan unless...get this...they are unable to afford it. Therefore, in the end, those same 20 million who want a health care plan are without. They fix NOTHING but greatly improve the opportunity for government graft. Simply awful.
If this bill were enacted in any state I lived, I would move. Where does one go, though, when choice is removed by an unconstitutional usurpation of state rights and all states are bound by the same law? What sort of country will be left to our children when state governments find it less and less necessary to compete with each other for population and business as federalism withers? What happens to liberty as power accumulates farther from the people?
More and more I am thinking of bailing. Texas.
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