Oh, it's not going to help.
The question is whether it then lowers the costs that get billed to the state for health care for those workers when they show up at the hospital anyway. Either we pay through our income taxes, or the companies that choose not to insure their workers carry the cost.
Since companies in Mass do not belong to the state but to their shareholders this 7% tax will adversely affect their bottomline.
So the only question is whether or not the people of Mass will shoulder the burden of this 7% tax in higher fees for goods and services or whether this will increase unemployment by businesss laying off the number of people required to cover the cost of the new tax.
Either way the taxpayers of the state will be paying for the healthcare of these workers.