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December 03, 2003 at 07:00 PM
NU Online News Service, Dec. 3, 2003, 5:02 p.m. EST – The California Chamber of Commerce, Sacramento, Calif., has organized a coalition that hopes to persuade voters to kill the state’s new “universal health insurance” law.[@@]
The law, created by Senate Bill 2, will require employers with 200 workers or more to provide employee health coverage or pay the state to provide coverage. Eventually, the bill also could require employers with 20 to 199 workers to provide health coverage.
The California chamber and its allies have started Californians Against Government Run Healthcare, a group that will try to put a referendum against S.B. 2 on the March 2004 ballot.
The coalition is describing the bill as a referendum on a “new $7 billion health care tax” that will hurt the California job market and reduce the percentage of Californians who have employer-sponsored health coverage.
