Should corporations be required to provide health insurance to their full-time employees?
explain what you think?
No. Free market works best.
There's a name for government telling private businesses what they have to do - it's called fascism, and every country that's used it, has gone broke.
Any business can choose to do this voluntarily as a way to attract and retain good employees.
But to require them to do so, by law, would be ridiculous. The next step might be to require them to provide a car for all employees to get to work, and a weekly allowance to pay for housing, groceries, and so forth.
You are free to negotiate your terms of employment on your own, or join a union that will do that for you.
You will be much better off in the long run if you decide to take responsibility for your own welfare, think for yourself, and take an optinistic approach to all the challenges that life presents.
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Before expenses got so high and many corps moved overseas to get cheaper labor, the large companies used to offer health insurance as a benefit. First, it was 100% for employees. Then cost of health insurance went up, so they might pay 75% of employees expenses. Then, employees started to get lax with regards to protecting their health, and health insurance got higher because of higher claims.
If they can afford to, it would be great. However, not even each state gov't provides health insurance to all employees without some contribution from the employee.
By government legislation -- no. And only because it would be a token law with no teeth. Instead, I think we consumers should buy what we need from businesses that provide health insurance to all of their employees. The challenge is discovering which businesses really do this. Concerned about higher prices at these businesses? -- Who pays for the health care of 'Wal-Mart' employees now? 'Free Market' only works if we take the time to discover our voices, then use our dollars to enlist corporate listeners. Instead of formulating arguments against this legislation (and pretending that if we just hang back, corporations will do the right thing), we should be examining our own values and privileges in a racist, sexist society.