How the Senate Health Bill Punishes Businesses That Hire Low-Income Workers

Heritage "Suppose you wanted to prevent single parents and people from lower-income families from getting a job. How about imposing a $3,000 tax penalty on any employer who hired such a person instead of an equally qualified, equally paid person from a higher-income family? Would that do the trick? It would do the trick quite nicely--but since no decent person actually wants to make it hard to escape poverty, it's a really bad idea. But that is exactly what the Senate health care bill does."