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Karen Shepherd: “it is time to put fairness back in the health care system. Is it fair to penalize a business for providing health care…”

On the recordMay 3, 1994
it is time to put fairness back in the health care system. Is it fair to penalize a business for providing health care insurance to a sick worker? That is what we do now. Is it fair to raise rates on businesses who provide health care insurance to all their employees to pay for the cost of those who do not cover their employees? That is what we do now. Is it fair to put businesses who do the right thing at a competitive disadvantage to businesses who choose not to provide healthy care insurance for their employees? Of course, it is not fair, but that is what we do now. It is time to bring fairness into the system. Health care reform must ensure that all businesses are rewarded when they provide health care insurance.
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Karen Shepherd
Democratic · Utah
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Addressing fairness in the health care system during a speech on health care reform.

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