healthcare for their employees have more money dates in what they have to cover. there is a standard of coverage that is going up. if you cover more people and the standard of coverage goes up it s going to cost more. martha: the white house and democrats who support the bill have argued that the costs will decline over time because of things like preventative care being covered and over time it will pick up things that could be treated more quickly and that that will help some of thess ka hraeugt costs. yo the escalating costs. they are living in a cream world if you require more people would be covered and require that they be covered more thoroughly it s going to cost more. what this report also points out the obvious fact that the penalty for noncoverage in the healthcare law, in other words, if corporate america drops healthcare coverage they save a lot of money. southwest airlines, to cover their employees cost them $400 million under the law per
conclusion that it s going to raise healthcare costs and cost a lot more money, not just to corporate america but to average americans who have to pay for the new man dates out of their own pocket. martha: they say that would come from higher taxes, that it would come from fees and bureaucratic burdens according to this report that is entitled higher costs, more confusion and less coverage. the other side, the white house basically says that this is a part son report as i mentioned in the event throw, they say it s misleading, inaccurate and contradictory and that democrats have come up with their own list of companies who say that they think it will indeed lower their costs. well, you know, facts are facts. you can interpret them different ways, but here is two facts, there is an individual mandate, every american has to have health insurance, so you re going to cover a lot more americans, and that is going to cost more, number one. number two, corporate america, which generally pro