New Study: Health Insurance Mandates on Employers Hurt Low-Income Employees

U.S. Newswire, November, 2007

To: NATIONAL EDITORS

Contact: Tim Miller of the Employment Policies Institute, 1-202- 463-7650

For every 100 newly insured employees under a 'Pay or Play' law, 10 entry-level employees will lose their jobs

WASHINGTON, Nov. 9 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A new study presented as part of a Cornell University symposium finds that "Pay or Play" laws, which require employers to provide health insurance to their employees or a pay fine, will reduce employment for the least skilled members of the work force.

The study sponsored by the Employment Policies Institute and authored by Cornell University economists Richard Burkhauser and Kosali Simon, uses federal Current Population Survey data to calculate that for every 100 newly insured employees resulting from a "Pay...

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