The way the law is written, yes you will be required to have health insurance whether you have a job or not, whether you chose to or not.

Natal plans are covered (one of my engineers just had a kid this last summer)
Dental is covered.
Eyeglasses are covered.
We’ve had surgery under the plan, no one has been dropped.

Are you sure you haven’t been listening to the propaganda and just THINK it’s as bad as they say it is?

you can get catastrophic coverage with a 1000 deductable for less than 150 per employee per month. But it doesn’t cover basic things like natal care, and you are paying retail for z-packs when you need em. Also you are probably getting dropped from the insurance if you ever make a claim.

Also he didn’t articulate how many famlies he has on his plan. Minimal family plans are 15,000 to 24,000 per year.

In fact your post is so cluless, I don’t think you really have the first clue what you are talking about. Do you?

Have I missed it somewhere?

Not a very good one if it costs you that much. I have more than that and it costs less than half for mine.

You need to shop around.

The business could be seized by the government if…

For someone who makes 60K the additional tax would be about $1,500 dollars a year. Not a small amount of money but considerably less than an insurance policy which would cost from 3K to 10K for the same individual.

Some small businesses are exempt, but even if they weren’t, it would be no different than it is today with social security and medicare etc. If you choose not to pay your taxes you can lose your business and face jail time. Most of the time you only have to pay what you owe plus fines.

I am concerned about insurance prices going up, but mostly because of the damage done by lobyists to the public option.

One of the biggest reasons insurance is so expensive is because the insured are paying for the uninsured. Hospitals pass these cost of treating uninsured patients to insured ones. The idea is that if everyone is insured the average cost of medical treatment will decrease.

I am a small business owner, I have 7 employees and I provide health insurance, it currently costs us 90k a year to cover our employees. I provide insurance because I believe that healthy employees are productive ones. People who can’t afford preventative medicine or take care of their families health concerns cannot work effectively. People who are in-firmed cannot work, if they are bankrupted from medical treatment costs they can’t buy products, which is what or economy is based on.

What if a small business owner decided he wasn’t going to provide insurance for his people anymore nor pay the insurance fee to the government?

They would send a letter informing him his taxes were overdue.

Would the government come in, shut down his business by putting him in jail, and put all his people out of work?

Who knows. That is a Justice Department decision. The business could be ceased by the government if the owner still refused to pay the taxes. If the owner still refused to pay his taxes he could be fined and or JAILED.

Would the government put the people out of work? No. The tax evader would be the one doing that. The business would most likely be sold for unpaid taxes and since a going concern is worth more, the Government would most likely appoint an interim administrator.

Blaming the government for the owner’s crimes is foolish. Typical greedy, selfish, inconsiderate tactics of Liebertarians though. Blame others for their refusal to pay their share of the public obligation.

Would they and their families then be able to get “free” health care from the government because they no longer had jobs?

Unemployed generally qualify for Medicaid.

You people have no clue what you are doing here.

No, once again you demonstrate your ignorance. We the people want health care reform.

I will not take a cut in profits to compensate — I’m going to raise my rates which then get passed on to you.

None of the current health care bills apply to Sim City or any other Fantasy World. In the real world, posers don’t count.

If the Senate passes this shit, it will be the end of the US economy. There is no way to avoid it.

The exact same complaint heard when Social Security, all of Roosevelt’s aid packages, Medicare, Nixon’s resignation, and the invasion of Iraq happened. We are still here.

You give yourself away as a poser simply because you are always saying it can’t be done instead of suggesting how it can be done. The difference between running your own business and still living off of your mother. Working for a living and being a dreamer.

What if a small business owner decided he wasn’t going to provide insurance for his people anymore nor pay the insurance fee to the government? Would the government come in, shut down his business by putting him in jail, and put all his people out of work? Would they and their families then be able to get “free” health care from the government because they no longer had jobs?

You people have no clue what you are doing here. This is going to do nothing but increase the cost of insurance more than it is now. And you are going to be paying for it because I will not take a cut in profits to compensate — I’m going to raise my rates which then get passed on to you. Groceries are going to cost more because the grocer has a higher bill. Unemployment will remain high because companies won’t want the extra burden of hiring people due to the added overhead.

If the Senate passes this shit, it will be the end of the US economy. There is no way to avoid it.

So much for “taxes on those making less than $250,000 will not go up.”

But you’re not forced to buy car insurance, if you don’t drive. But you can’t choose to NOT be ALIVE so you don’t have to be forced to buy health insurance.

But this part of the bill isn’t new, this was put into the bill a few months ago by Sen. Baucus.