In particular, in the absence of viable pooling mechanisms outside the employment setting in the U.S., the exclusion can be rationalized as the "glue" that holds employer pools together.
Through such arrangements, the White House says, small employers could pool their buying power and negotiate lower premiums, similar to those offered to large corporations.
There are now 32 states that have them, though there's a crucial catch: they don't apply to the many large employers who pool their own resources in so-called self-funded insurance plans.
The AFL-CIO denounced the guest-worker programme, which it said would give employers "a ready pool of labour that they can exploit to drive down wages, benefits, health and safety protections" for everyone else.
The federal and local governments funded 33% of CHE and pooled 38% of CHE via local and governmental schemes; employers funded and pooled 36% of CHE via private health insurance; households funded and pooled about 22% of CHE; and corporations funded about 9% of CHE and pooled about 4% of CHE via enterprise financing schemes, as shown in Figure 1.
After Moore's match with Ponzi, he was hired by Ponzi's sometime employer, Sylvester Livingston, a pool impresario who hosted exhibitions with a stable of top pool talent including Irving Crane who, like Lassiter, would become a six-time world champion.
It also requires employers with an employee pool of Mission Pie's size to pay $1.63 per hour per employee for healthcare.
"The Polish idea of being a boss is still sitting in a big office being rude to people," says one long-time British observer of Polish business.Migration also deepens the talent pool for employers in Poland.
As the economy weakens, and as employers have a larger pool of job candidates from which to choose, their challenge is to make sound ethical decisions by being honest about what they are really looking for in new recruits.
