Dr. Denis Cortese, the clinic's chief executive, said that under the proposals, employees could keep their individual policies when they changed jobs, an important issue for workers.
Democrats recently limited their proposal to employees and the self-employed, cutting its cost to $185 billion given complaints from liberals and conservatives.
Ms. Franco said her company had received various proposals from employees or founders of dot-coms, but had decided to pass on those first-person narratives.
MDC has recently financed some proposals by employees of its agencies to start agencies of their own; one is a New York shop named Skinny, which was founded by employees of Kirshenbaum Bond Senecal & Partners.
That can lead to a host of problems, from faulty products to failed proposals, when employees don't speak up when they see problems.
"Ministers are ducking out of matching Labour's call for the proposals of the independent High Pay Commission to be implemented in full and, despite claiming they wish to promote employee engagement, won't support the proposal to put employees on company remuneration committees".
President Bush's proposal would let employees sell stock that companies contributed to 401(k) accounts after workers hold it for three years.
Three months later, a proposal from two employees to start an agency mutual fund led to an initiative called the K.B.S.& P. Client Stock Index, which tracks the performance of publicly traded shares of the agency's clients.
The compromise proposal would exclude employees of commercial tenants in subsidized developments, like retail workers, who had in many ways been the main focus of the bill's advocates.
United Healthcare Workers East, agreed to a wage freeze for next year, but also — in a move that parallels Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg's proposal for municipal employees — accepted less generous pensions for future hires.
