Fair Share Health Care in New Hampshire
What People are Saying
Senate Majority Leader Working to Stop Wal-Mart Model of Stranding In New Hampshire Senate Majority Leader Robert Clegg criticized news that Wal-Mart employees topped the state’s list of workers relying on the publicly funded Healthy Kids program. The Associated Press reported, “Clegg, a conservative Republican, believes businesses are shirking their responsibility to provide health care because they know taxpayers will pick up the tab. “Business has looked at it as a method of reducing overhead,” he said. Clegg is looking at reform proposals that would minimize public health insurance coverage substituting private coverage. – Associated Press, 5/15/05
Critical Facts
- Wal-Mart employees: 8,062 (as of March 2006)
- Title of the Bill: HB 1704—
An Act establishing a health care fund, continually appropriating a special fund, and requiring certain employers to report certain information to the department of health and human services. - Summary of Bill: "This bill requires employers with 1500 or more employees who do not spend a certain percentage of their payroll toward health care for their employees to put a certain amount into a health care fund which shall be used to support the Medicaid program. This bill grants rulemaking authority to the commissioner of the department of health and human services for the purposes of the bill."
- Status: Introduced 1/4; hearing 1/11
- Party Split of the Legislature:
House: 253 Republicans, 147 Democrats
Senate: 16 Republicans, 8 Democrats - Sponsors:
Rep. Marcia G. Moody, 12th Dist., (D)
Rep. Mary Beth Walz , 13th Dist., (D)
Rep. Marshall Lee Quandt, 13th Dist., (R)
Rep. Matthew J. Quandt, 13th Dist., (R)
Rep. Suzanne Harvey, 21st Dist., (D)
Sen. Martha Fuller Clark, 24th Dist., (D) - Committee: Commerce
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