Quote:I did enjoy the clarification of 29ers and 49ers was.  The beauty salon lady brought up a pretty issue in forcing businesses to offer employee healthcare and how it could actually hurt the business growing.  


I get the point of forcing businesses with lots of employees to do that but maybe it should be more based on net revenue of businesses instead of simply number of employees.  

 

Bernie stumbled slightly on this question. All he had to say was if Texas had opted for Medicaid expansion the Salon owner and her employees would be able to opt in and get pretty good insurance. The Salon owner wouldn't have to pay to cover her employees and could also get her own insurance (she was uninsured). The salon workers, who probably don't get paid much, could get insurance too. He didn't hammer enough how this would be a win win. 

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