Tacking Health Care Costs Onto California Farm Produce

In the Central Valley of California, farm workers in a tomato field.
Insurance brokers and health providers estimate that  meeting
 the Affordable Care Act’s minimum health plan will cost  about
$1 per hour per employee in the field

 

NY Times   "Farm labor contractors across California, the nation’s biggest agricultural engine, are increasingly nervous about a provision of the Affordable Care Act that will require hundreds of thousands of field workers to be covered by health insurance."