The other option they have, and one I expect will be chosen more often as times passes, is to drop coverage and pay $750 in fines per year for each employee.
I have a strong suspicion those are only “starter” fines. They are not high enough to herd everyone onto the collective farm of “single payer.”
The House bill raised this fine to $2000/employee. I'm not sure if it was enacted in this form, or how it would be enacted.
What happens to places that have really high employee churn, like McDonald's? A fine of $2000 per employee at a place that has to hire a new worker for that spot every couple of months is really going to add up. Or is the fine per job slot, and not per actual hired person that year? How would they even calculate that?