A Message from the Mass. AFL-CIO on Health Care:
Boston.com Poll Asks if Romney Should Veto Employer Assessment for Health Care
A Boston.com poll asks whether Governor Mitt Romney should veto the $295 employer assessment part of the new health care reform bill. (The poll is found half-way down the page under “Your View”.)
The Massachusetts AFL-CIO believes that the $295 employer assessment is not nearly enough, but it is better than nothing. It is unconscionable that Governor Romney would sign a bill that creates the first ever individual mandate requiring citizens of Massachusetts to acquire health care, but then would veto the miniscule assessment on employers that indicates their role in providing health care to workers. We wish the assessment were more, but the Governor’s veto would completely absolve employers from their responsibility to provide health care, saying in essence that health care is only the responsibility of individuals.
Please log on to the
(scroll half-way down the page and click “Your View”) and vote “No, businesses have the responsibility to cover their employees and should be penalized if they do not.” Send a statement to the Governor, the legislature, and employers that the business community should not be given a free pass on health care.
and scroll half-way down the page to the “Your View” poll and vote. Thank you.
