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Sleep: It reduces colds, heart disease and obesity.
Lessons from Canada (where everyone is in the public plan).
What "pay-or-play" could mean for employers: $6,000 annual fine for failure to provide health insurance.
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If an employee buys health insurance on his own the employer must still pay a $6,000 fine to the new insurance exchange.
The Democrats will never be able to sell this goofy plan to the American people.
Sounds like the welfare state is as big and intrusive as it ever was.
Employers are going to end up paying for all of this, and they will have no controll whatsoever over what they are funding.