Dose Of Socialism Could Save Our States...Single Payer Healthcare Would Bring In Business & Jobs

[limpyhobbler]

How often do we hear the argument that American business is suffering under the yoke of a healthcare system that places a huge responsibility on employers to carry the heavy load of insuring their employees?

According to a Gallup Poll out this week, 48 percent of small business owners who were polled said that their concern over healthcare costs is keeping them from hiring new employees.

That can’t be good.

Now, how often do we hear that the answer to the severely stressed financial circumstances of almost every state in the nation is to create a friendly business environment that will lure employers into the state and solve all the budget problems?

Read on: http://www.forbes.com/sites/rickungar/2012/04/06/a-dose-of-socialism-could-save-our-states-state-sponsored-single-payer-healthcare-would-bring-in-business-jobs/

[msongs]

1. our current crop of politicians favors insurance corporate profits over health care for all nt

[limpyhobbler]

2. Right but what I can't quite figure out is why big business doesn't lead the charge

for single payer. Companies that employ a lot of workers would benefit enormously by not having to deal with health insurance at all. It's something of a mystery to me why Wal-Mart, for example, wouldn't lobby for single payer so they could be rid of the responsibilty of paying for health insurance for their workers.

[area51]

3. I've wondered that too,

but I think employers want to keep their thumb over employees; cross a line, and you get fired & lose your health care access.

[nxylas]

5. They are leading the charge, the only way they know how

By shipping off jobs to Canada.

[JoeyT]

6. Wal-Mart already has single payer for most of their employees.

When you pay your employees that little many (possibly even most) of them are eligible for Medicaid.

[eridani]

4. The following pdf is a very good 2 page summary, with graphs

http://www.dollarsandsense.org/archives/2012/0312friedman.pdf

[raccoon]

7. People who would like to have their own business wouldn't have to stay with their jobs just for the

health care (that's assuming, of course, the person is lucky enough to have insurance with their employer to begin with.)

Also CARETAKERS would be able to have decent health care.

[bighughdiehl]

8. Ah, repubs

They SAY they want people to be entrepreneurs who pick them selves up
by their bootstraps.
They SAY they want to make life easier for businesses to create jobs.....
but they won't implement one of the most surefire fixes.
Disingenuine assholes, psychopaths all.