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Save American Workers Act
2015 (HR-30)
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This policy change would hurt most people, while companies benefit
Increasing the threshold for whether companies are required to provide health care for their employees would help...
o Companies with more than 50 employees, who would spend much less on health insurance for their employees (or less in fines for not providing it).
It would hurt...
o All taxpayers, because more of their tax money would be needed to subsidize coverage for those employees.
Our analysis is based on the current system
Lobby99 does not have a position on whether employers should be required to pay for their employees' health care insurance. However, changing from that model would require substantial coordinated changes to our health care and labor systems (for example, Universal Health Care combined with wage protections to make up for costs that companies no longer would be responsible for).
Until that happens, we need to find the policy within our existing structure that best supports the overwhelming majority of Americans.