Thanks, Eugene, for the close read and detailed reactions.
1. On your first point, even if the 4980H(a) tax were the equivalent of a
$3000 assessment (because it's paid with after-tax dollars), the average
cost for providing health insurance to employees is, as I understand it,
closer to
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Pastafarians don’t generally evangelize quite this much.
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Prof. Steven D. Jamar vox: 202-806-8017
Director of International Programs, Institute for Intellectual
With respect to the first issue discussed by Eugene and Marty, here are the
average per-policy employer contributions in the United States reported by
the Kaiser Family Foundation:
Family policy - $11,237
Employee plus one policy - $7,797
Single employee policy - $4,266
http://www.crainsnewyork.com/assets/pdf/CN922431216.PDF
Mark S. Scarberry
Professor of Law
Pepperdine Univ. School of Law
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The heart of Marty's argument (I focus for now on item 1 below) is, I think, an
empirical claim: Large employers such as Hobby Lobby would be better off just
dropping coverage, paying the $2000/employee/year tax, us[ing] some of [the]
enormous cost savings to compensate employees for the lost
