re: #196 austin_blue

Better? Most definitely! Care is better for people who have coverage and costs are cheaper in the long run than using the ER for Primary Care.

Jumping in late here, but I see a problem with this proposal: it encourages businesses to cut employee’s hours to under 20 per week, in order to skirt around the law. And there are plenty of businesses that would be willing and able to make such a shift - Walmart is already notorious for keeping employee hours below 30 hours per week in order to avoid paying them benefits that are granted to full-time employees, with 30 hours being the magic cut-off point. So you could well wind up with a whole pile of people who still have no health insurance, but who are now severely under-employed.