New York State legislature considering legislation requiring companies to pay employees' health care

Associated Press via syracuse.com ^ | March 7, 2006 7:07 PM | Candice Choi

[wouldntbprudent]

Interesting point: you see this as a way to "motivate" (i.e., extort) businesses to push for socialized medicine. Good point!

[dfwgator]

Easy solution. Reduce the number of full time employees (if possible) to 99 and employ the rest as part time workers.

And outsource more work to India.

[Realism]

you see this as a way to "motivate" (i.e., extort) businesses to push for socialized medicine.

What? Businesses already are pushing for national health care by dropping benefits or by enticing employees to not enroll.

[BJClinton]

Go for it. While you're at it, vote to no longer allow deductions of state taxes from federal taxes. There's no reason why I should have to pay for your socialist "utopia".

[Gabz]

Your question is rhetorical,right?

Aren't most of them on these subjects???? :)

[Mrs.Nooseman]

LOL.

I am glad I didn't have to answer that question.LOL

[bill1952]

10 years? How about right now?

I had recently heard that revised census estimates may have given Florida the edge in late 05, but I'm not certain where I heard that, so it may not be true.

In 04, Florida lagged NY with 17,397,161 to NY's 19,227,088, and leaped past Pennsylvania's 12,406,292.

Given the explosive growth here in the last two years that shows few signs of abating anytime soon, if Florida is not yet #3, it will be in short order.

[SheLion]

Bruno doesn't sound like the sharpest knife in the draw. How moronic can these people get?

Thanks for the  ping!

[Shooter1001]

New Jersey anyone? Somebody call Big John. It's time to move.

O yeah? What makes you think NJ is any better? Save LA, NJ is the most corrupt state. We don't even vote for our senators and governor anymore. They are appointed or simply buy the office. Then they have an election. Ha, so did the USSR have elections.

Now our newly elected Dem governor thinks his name is Florio or GHW Bush. Just tell 'em you won't raise taxes and then once you get elected, raise 'em; what are those idiots going to do.

So think twice if you think its any better over here.

[Rodm]

In other news today...512 former NY businesses have moved to bordering states and our unemployment jumped to 16% the highest rate since the great depression.

[Madame Dufarge]

So the state's seguing from socialism to fascism.

How nice to see the "Republican" enthusiastically signing on, too.

Not having the guts to raise taxes to support their Utopian health care scheme, the weasels just dump their mess into the laps of private businesses.

Who will pass the cost along to their customers.

Using cutouts, just like a Mafia don.

[Paperdoll]

>Businesses have to provide health care?<

When legislators can tell the private sector what it must do , you know it's all over, folks. Freedom no longer rings, and the bureaurcacy rules. Where there is no freedom, the economy does a nose dive. Soon if you don't work for the gubmint, you'll be on the breadline.

[383rr]

Ah, so this is the great socailist utopia. Let's MAKE private business take on even more taxes and fees, and babysit everyone. It is hard enough to be in business these days as it is. Soon, all these corporations will pull out of these states{which I think they should}, or go under. Then where will their tax base be? Fools, fools, fools.

[Doohickey]

New Yorkers can look forward to a lot fewer full time jobs. Look for the followup bill requiring a percentage of workers be full time, or dumbing-down the definition of full time.

[Supernatural]

Health care is one big rip-off. Way overpriced and often unnecessary work is done to pad the bill or to try to keep the lawyers at bay.

[Madame Dufarge]

Just like a tick, the pols have learned to bleed the host just shy of killing it.

It gets troublesome when the tick gets bigger than the dog, though.

[Paperdoll]

>but having someone else pay for your access to medical attention is certainly not.<

I am old enough to remember when everyone could afford medical care before the gubmint went into the insurance business with medicare. Now the costs have spiraled as hospitals and physicians have milked that system, until no one can afford medical care anymore. It's too bad we can't go back and start all over again, isn't it?

[Mears]

"It gets troublesome when the tick gets bigger than the dog, though."

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Tick! Tick! Tick!

The USA that we all knew appears to be on the countdown tto socialism!

[CT-Freeper]

Sorry...don't know what you're talking about. I'm only 27. ;-)

[Zon]

Worth repeating:

"This bill is not even consistent with the ethics of the left. It leaves out virtually every fast-food and restaurant worker, not to mention the employees of other (relatively) small businesses (100 employees is not that small). If health care is a fundamental right, it is the reponsibility of government, not selective big business. It's a BS bill put forth by BS, grandstanding legislators."