Submitted by B Cohen, Aug 28, 2007 16:09

Universal health care. Straight forward, then everyone gets coverage and everyone gets to stay healthy and work and earn money for their employers. As someone who employs ten people, I like it. In Britain, I employ four people. No health insurance costs other than employers contribution into the British National Insurance Scheme; about $700 a month. Plus I get my employee who broke his leg back to work in just over 6 weeks, relaxed, rested and raring to go. The state paid me back for his sick pay, so no financial worries on his part; no problems on mine.

In the US I employ 6 people, average monthly average for health insurance - $6,500 - some tax deducitble (note - some, not all of it, by any means...). The employee who was in a car crash and broke his arm - absent for 3 months (terrible fracture), came back before he should have, because he nearly lost his home because neither of us could come up with a way to get the insurance company paid what was due to him thorugh the insurance I, and he, carry on time and without problem. Oh, two years on and it's still not "sorted" as my British employees say.

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