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Originally Posted by alias You have to give me some documentation before I swallow that. | This is a great place to start: http://www.usc.edu/schools/college/c...ge_America.pdf http://www.nchc.org/facts/coverage.shtml http://www.nchc.org/facts/2006 Fact Sheets/Coverage - 2006.pdf
Millions of workers don't have the opportunity to get coverage. A third of firms in the U.S. did not offer coverage in 2004 (2).
Nearly two-fifths (38 percent) of all workers are employed in smaller businesses, where less than two-thirds of firms now offer health benefits to their employees. (4)It is estimated that 266,000 companies dropped their health coverage between 2000-2005 and 90 percent of those firms have less than 25 employees. Even if employees are offered coverage on the job, they can't always afford their portion of the premium. Employee spending for health insurance coverage (employee's share of family coverage) has increased 143 percent between 2000 and 2005. (5)
So about 33% of employers do not provide coverage. --- help me Instant Runoff Voting, you're my only hope --- There is little doubt that the world in general is more liberal than it was 50 years ago and beyond. Conservatives are simply roadblocks on the path to an ever more progressive and liberal world. What a sad existence.
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