Health care costs stymie hiring

[NeoConsSuck]

Source: TimesUnion.COM

So far, it has been a jobless recovery, with employers hesitant to hire until they're sure the expansion will last.

And they have an additional hurdle to face: rapidly rising health care costs that make it even more expensive to add workers.
"Rising health care costs are going to put the brake on job creation, which in turn puts the brakes on economic recovery," said Kenneth Adams, president and CEO of The Business Council of New York State.

"For the past 20 years, our members have identified health insurance as their number-one concern," said Mike Elmendorf, state director of the National Federation of Independent Business in Albany.

<snip>
"You could see small business owners bring on part-time workers, or medium or large firms outsourcing or using consultants," said Adams. "That's not the economic recovery we really want."




Read more: http://www.timesunion.com/AspStories/story.asp?storyID=851655

[Skittles]

1. I remember when Hillary Clinton tried to do something about this

[jus_the_facts]

2. I remember it turned out to be an *epic fail* too....

....we shall see if this turns out the same way. :(

:hi: Skittles!

[bread_and_roses]

3. I remember when HC put forward a convoluted muddle of a "plan" that no one could understand

and thus, frightened people and was an easy target for the vampire health "insurance" and big Pharma companies. The irony of course was that the convoluted, incomprehensible, unweildy, and beauracratically expensive "plan" was necessitated by trying to keep the insurance cos in the mix. Protecting them, in essence. And it looks as if the current effort is well on its way to making much the same mistake, though there are a few hopeful glimmers here and there.

The only danger of her plan to our vampire corporate-care system was that even a tiny wedge into their barbaric system might have opened the door a crack to eventual greater change - unleashing their ferocity.

[annabanana]

4. THIS is why a single payer system would be the Ultimate stimulus.

Nothing would free up capital for hiring and expansion like this.
Nothing would encourage entrepreneurs to strike out on their own like this.
Nothing would improve our position in international trade like this.

NO ONE gains from the current mess except the insurance companies... who add nothing and take away everything.

[clear eye]

6. Yeah, we keep saying it and saying it and saying it,

but the MSM won't report it. Even the unions, who would lose health care coverage as a bargaining chip, have acknowledged the huge job stimulus effect of single-payer and signed on. Boy, are our newspapers dysfunctional.

[clear eye]

5. They're just noticing now?

Well, better late than never, I guess. I'm afraid that instead of using this as an argument for European-style single payer, they're putting this out now to derail the employer mandates in the current proposed bills, leaving us w/ almost no increases in coverage at all.

Thanks for posting it, though.