Small businesses finding it cheaper to pay state penalties than buy health insurance for workers

By adamg on Sun, 07/18/2010 - 7:43am

The Globe reports.

Given the political risks of raising the penalties in a recession, Paul Levy, CEO of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, can't figure out if this is something just happening at the margins - health insurance being a benefit employers use to lure and keep workers - or something far more significant that could affect the national health-insurance system, which is based on ours.

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I worked for a company that did this

By EM Painter on Sun, 07/18/2010 - 6:34pm.

I think they did it as much out of spite over getting forced to buy health as anything else. But their pay was lousy anyway.

In the end, the only thing that will change this is a competition for workers.

"Competition for workers"

By Dan Farnkoff on Sun, 07/18/2010 - 6:39pm.

In all seriousness, do you think those conditions will ever develop again for the vast majority of occupations?

sure

By EM Painter on Mon, 07/19/2010 - 11:03pm.

If you've ever lived through such a period of growth, you know it can happen.

With the state and many local

By Haviland on Sun, 07/18/2010 - 7:30pm.

With the state and many local cities offering sanctuary to illegal aliens, somehow I doubt there is EVER going to be a labor shortage sufficient enough to cause competition amongst these types of workers. There's simply an endless supply of people willing to work regardless of the benefits.