Business owners address health-care costs

By Stacey Burling   09/25/2009

Philadelphia Inquirer Staff Writer

After enduring years of rising health-care premiums, Rolf Poeting, who owns a Latrobe glass-etching company, took a step this year he’s not happy about. He stopped offering health insurance that covers the families of his 30 employees.

He knows his workers, who make $25,000 to $40,000 a year, cannot afford coverage on their own. But it seemed unfair that, by providing coverage to spouses who worked at other companies, he was subsidizing owners who do not offer insurance.

Business owners address health-care costs | Philadelphia Inquirer | 09/25/2009

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