[lbo-talk] corps & single-payer

[Wojtek Sokolowski]

J Tyler:
> But with health care costs rising, it becomes advantageous, from a
> competition standpoint as between capitalists, to try to reduce the
> share of health care costs shouldered by the employer and put them on
> the worker.  This might be their undoing, however, because as employers
> continue to shift the cost of health care directly on the worker, a
> movement for single payer health care will grow stronger.  It will be
> interesting to see what the response of capitalists is to that movement,

They will try to pass legislation forcing the underpaying corporations to
pay a certain minimum share, as they did in MD.  The Fair Share Health Care
Bill targeted Wal-Mart and was supported by other retailers.  It passed over
the governor's veto
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/05/19/AR2005051900
853.html

Wojtek