Michael Dukakis published an outstanding op-ed in today’s Globe in which he castigates the “business community” (i.e., AIM and the Chamber of Commerce) for opposing all forms of “pay or play” in the health care debate. Dukakis makes the point we’ve been pushing here for ages: the current system is grossly unfair to businesses that do the right thing by providing healthcare benefits for their employees, and is far worse for those employers than the DiMasi-care proposal.
Here’s how it starts:
The state’s business community is one of our biggest assets. But some of its leaders don’t seem to understand that the state’s healthcare system is anti-busineess. Maybe they just don’t understand how the healthcare system works. If they did, they would be supporting Speaker Sal DiMasi’s proposal for healthcare reform, just like the business leaders who worked with me on universal health insurance in 1988.
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