The Pain of Health Coverage | Philadelphia Inquirer | 12/09/2007: "Frank Manzo keeps doing the math, trying to figure out how he can still offer health insurance to his employees.
His 28-employee tech-staffing company, Computer Methods Corp., charges clients $35 an hour for help desk workers. He pays them $25 an hour.
Health insurance premiums proposed for 2008 for a family run nearly $12 an hour - up 30 percent from last year.
Forget about profit. Forget about rent on the company's Marlton offices, the electric bill, or even paper for the copy machine.
The middle-class, college-educated people at Manzo's company were on the edge of joining America's 47 million uninsured.
'Where do I find the money?' Manzo asked, his voice rising in frustration. 'What am I supposed to pay them - $10 an hour? At this point, they may as well go work for McDonald's.'
Health insurance makes everyone miserable. But among the most miserable are small-business owners."
Sorry if this is an old article to you, just appeared in my Pittsburgh paper this Sunday...
Sunday, January 13, 2008
The Pain of Health Coverage | Philadelphia Inquirer | 12/09/2007
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