Purchasing Health Insurance
» Purchasing Health Insurance, Volume 7, Issue 3, 2007
If respondent does NOT offer employee health insurance or premium reimbursement AND has at least one full-time employee.
19. If the law required you to either purchase health insurance and pay 60 percent of the premium for your full-time employees OR pay an additional 7.5 percent tax on payroll, which would you choose?
| Response | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Definitely purchase health insurance | 15 | ||
| 2 | Probably purchase health insurance | 15 | ||
| 3 | Probably pay the tax | 23 | ||
| 4 | Definitely pay the tax | 13 | ||
| 5 | (Not possible/couldn't do either/out-of-business) | 20 | ||
| 6 | (Other) | 4 | ||
| 7 | (DK/Refuse) | 11 | ||
| Total (%) | 101 | |||
| N | 184 | |||
Notes: If the law required small employers to either purchase health insurance and pay 60 percent of the premium for their full-time employees OR pay an additional 7.5 percent of payroll, 30 percent of small employers who do not offer employee health insurance or premium reimbursement and have at least one full-time employee would choose to purchase health insurance (Q#19).
