The Senate Free-Rider Provision or: How in trying to reform health care we could end up with a part-time America
Posted on December 10th, 2009 by Maura Pond, UFCW in From Our Partners
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Senate, what on earth is up with the Free-Rider provision in the health care bill?
In the spirit of an encouraging friend offering constructive criticism on decisions that could lead to potentially harmful and unintended consequences (like the time in college when my roommate wanted to sink her life-savings into an industrial dump truck on eBay), we think it is about time to sit down, put the kettle on, and have a heart-to-heart.
In a nutshell, the Free-Rider provision states that employers who don’t offer good coverage pay a fine if their workers qualify for subsidies to buy coverage in the insurance exchange.
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