THE INFLUENCE GAME: Firms resist new health rules
By JULIE HIRSCHFELD DAVIS 10.21.09
WASHINGTON –
Despite promises by President Barack Obama, more than 70 million Americans who have health insurance through their jobs could be open to higher costs or denials of some coverage under a leading overhaul plan making its way through Congress.
That’s because large employers that directly assume the cost and risk of health coverage for their workers – including Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., Caterpillar Inc. and Xerox – wouldn’t be subject to the same rules and restrictions that would be imposed on health insurers in the measure approved this month by the Senate Finance Committee.
THE INFLUENCE GAME: Firms resist new health rules – Forbes.com
