OK to record? It says I need your OK.

yes

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i hear echo

You can leave questions here or text questions to Ling at 646-325-7286

Checkk out The New yorker Oct 2 “Is Health Care a Right” by Aful Gawande. excellent on The right of health care

It’s great that people are using this in blue and red areas of New York!

Yes!

Betty what will you do with the $100,000 you save. Will it create more jobs or profits or what

Can we use the video?

yes! the video is free at www.fixithealthcare.com

Can you tell us more about his training? Where get more information

Yes, we will ask him more about his training and circulate

FIX IT movie is an incredible tool! Can someone explain what the current obligation is , under state & federal law, for businesses to provide insurance plans to their employees? Is there an obligation for employers to cover a certain percent of premiums right now? Also, not sure if I understand how "Obamacare" plans bought on the exchange play into employer sponsered plans?

The ACA set a minimum coverage requirement for businesses with over 50 FTE

I don’t think there is a minimum premium contribution, but the average is about 70-80% of premiums

^that employers pay and employees pay the rest of the premiums

Agree. Matches my experience.

businesses under 50 FTEs have no obligation to provide insurance and if they don’t it is usually b/c of cost

1/4 of small business owners are actually uninsured themselves

again b/c of cost

Which toolkit is being referred to for the spreadsheet for business owners to look at costs?

Ling will share the toolkit as soon as it is finalized

I’d like to hear about approaches to businesses that do not provide health insurance, which is the most frequent type in my neighborhood.

Are there more economic studies to support the ACT other than the major one stated in your literature?

Do we have an update on Single payer efforts national by state?

i also would like to hear about what Tim is asking about

I have the same problem-most business I approach have said they pay 0 for their employees right now for they see this as an increase.

Here is one of my favorites from Cornell...

https://mobile-nytimes-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/mobile.nytimes.com/2017/07/07/upshot/why-single-payer-health-care-saves-money.amp.html

what is vince’s email?

Vince Mondillo, director of Fix It

"vmondil ." <mondillovideo@gmail.com>

Have a Law firm that could benefit from the video. They are now paying $22,000 per family

They seem to think it's fine that their employees are on Medicaid or some other form of government subsidised plan. I have tried to point out that it would save them so much on their own plans that it may allow them to cover a small group of employees through NY Health without an overall increase in their costs. Also I point out how much of their property taxes are actually paying for those Medicaid plans (nothing is free)

GREAT Points Margaret

yes I did not know about the property tax connection

In my county it is 70% to medicaid

I ran a company in Canada before coming to the USA in 1982. There I didn't even have a line in my financial statements for health insurance!

Dutchess County pay s 30% to Medicaid

Thanks, very helpful, have to go!

WWII Roosevelt started it to appease the employees wanted more pay in the war so employers started it

"The Healthcare Movie" provides some history about how Canada and the U.S. diverged with how to provide health insurance coverage.

I've been trying to find out how businesses who have part time employees that have a 2nd job would be handled under NYH?

Why the USA did what we did for healthcare... Another article that may be of intrest...

https://qz.com/1022831/why-doesnt-the-united-states-have-universal-health-care/

^Margaret — the funding would be based on payroll regardless of the number of hours they work

There is a great video available "Prairie Giant: The Tommy Douglas Story" that has the history of how Canada got single payer.

So their hourly wage would determine their bracket?

BC/BS was non-profit and collected premimus vs. payout for benefits was over 90 percent. They were connected with most hospitals and paid out about 80% of the bill. Balances were then "forgiven." So these plans added value...