The reason behind this shift of the business world is the growing dissatisfaction with constant and seemingly endless insurance premium increases. Interestingly small and medium sized businesses are on a different page:
“But small and midsize operations, such as restaurants and retail stores that usually don't provide coverage, have resisted wholesale changes to health-care laws. California's Chamber of Commerce and the state's restaurant association led the successful ballot fight in 2004 to repeal a state law requiring companies with more than 50 workers to provide insurance.”
I wrote a post about this topic a month ago titled “The Health Care Blog Tackles Universal Health Care.” When the business community wants to make changes to the laws they frequently get what they desire. In this case I am happy that this coalition has been formed to improve the health care situation in this country, even if the reasons are selfish.
If you want to know more about the details of the proposed health care plan then read this New York Times article mentioned in my previous post on this issue.
» Health Care Reform and Muslims from Hakim Abdullah
I am from New York, but I remember hearing about the Umma Community Clinic of Southern California in a lecture Imam Zaid Shakir gave called, Stand Up for Truth. As it turns out the ‘Umma Free Clinic’ as it is often called is a health-care f... [Read More]
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