Most Colorado employers think everyone should be required to have health insurance, according to a recent survey from the Business Health Forum.
The survey, conducted among members of the business community in six cities, was designed to tap employers' perspectives in the debate over health care reform.
According to the survey, 62 percent of the respondents agree that health insurance should be mandatory.
Four out of five of the proposals being studied by the state's Blue Ribbon Commission for Health Care Reform call for individual mandates as one way to provide coverage to Colorado's roughly 800,000 uninsured residents.
Health care experts say the uninsured create higher health care costs because providers like hospitals pass uncompensated costs to health insurers -- resulting in double-digit premium increases for employers.
The commission is preparing a report to state legislators that will outline policies that could retify the problem.
The survey showed that 67 percent of respondents said employees should be protected from having to spend more than a certain percentage of their family income on insurance.
But the survey also showed that only 42 percent of the participants believe employers should be required to provide insurance or pay into a purchasing pool that will help uninsured employees obtain some kind of coverage. Eighty-five percent of the respondents said government subsidies should allow people to buy into the private market.
Ninety-one percent said portability or continuity of health coverage ought to be assured for indiviuals and families.
The survey, conducted among members of the business community in six cities, was designed to tap employers' perspectives in the debate over health care reform.
According to the survey, 62 percent of the respondents agree that health insurance should be mandatory.
Four out of five of the proposals being studied by the state's Blue Ribbon Commission for Health Care Reform call for individual mandates as one way to provide coverage to Colorado's roughly 800,000 uninsured residents.
Health care experts say the uninsured create higher health care costs because providers like hospitals pass uncompensated costs to health insurers -- resulting in double-digit premium increases for employers.
The commission is preparing a report to state legislators that will outline policies that could retify the problem.
The survey showed that 67 percent of respondents said employees should be protected from having to spend more than a certain percentage of their family income on insurance.
But the survey also showed that only 42 percent of the participants believe employers should be required to provide insurance or pay into a purchasing pool that will help uninsured employees obtain some kind of coverage. Eighty-five percent of the respondents said government subsidies should allow people to buy into the private market.
Ninety-one percent said portability or continuity of health coverage ought to be assured for indiviuals and families.
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