claim: "any government-run 'public' plan ... forces more employers to drop employee coverage due to rising costs and pay an additional 8% payroll tax for each worker."
author: ginny brown-waite
evidence_1: no. socialized medicine is a system in which doctors and hospitals work for and  draw salaries from the government. doctors in the veterans administration and  the armed services are paid this way. the health systems in great britain and  spain are other examples. but in most european countries, canada, australia  and ...
evidence_2: sep 30, 2014 ... this means that employees who make as little as $23,660 per year may have no  limit on their weekly work hours nor earn any pay for working beyond the ...  salaried workers who earn $455 a week or more are only automatically due  overtime pay if their “primary” duties are not exempt duties such as being ...
evidence_3: benefits were to be financed by a payroll tax paid by employees and their  employers on wages up to a base amount (then $3,000 per year). monthly  benefits were to be based on cumulative wages in covered jobs. the law related  the amount of the benefit to the amount of a worker's total wages covered by the  program, but ...
evidence_4: health insurance is insurance that covers the whole or a part of the risk of a  person incurring medical expenses, spreading the risk over a large number of  persons. by estimating the overall risk of health care and health system expenses  over the risk pool, an insurer can develop a routine finance structure, such as a  monthly ...
evidence_5: oct 3, 2000 ... 88-8, may 1988); cases involving the extension of additional benefits to older  workers (no. 88-11, june .... under a defined benefit plan, the employer applies  a specific formula to calculate each employee's retirement benefit and promises  to pay that benefit once the employee becomes eligible. formulas ...