The House passed a bill that would allow small businesses to band together through national trade associations to offer insurance for their employees.
Under the measure, small companies could obtain coverage from a provider or self-insure, as many large employers do.
Small businesses and their biggest industry group, the National Federation of Independent Business, pushed for the bill's passage. About 60 percent of the nation's 41 million uninsured work for small businesses or depend on someone who does, supporters said.
This is just the kind of law the leftists hate. It's a free market solution to a problem that the government is just dying to solve for us.
Opponents say that without strict state safeguards, the plans could "cherry-pick" younger, healthier workers, saddling the rest with even higher costs than before.
He and other opponents pushed an alternative proposal that would provide subsidies to small businesses, through a Department of Labor program, for coverage patterned after federal employee health insurance. That amendment failed.
Right, don't let those businesses do it for themselves. Instead, let's create a Department of Labor program. What kind of country would we be if those 162 people ran the entire government?
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