Send a Letter to Potential Supporters
The coalition has prepared a sample letter that you can send to vendors, insurance agents, banks, law firms and temp agencies asking them to get involved.
Your company letterhead
Today's date
Name
Company
Address
City, State ZIP
Dear:
Our company has joined with California's major business groups to oppose Proposition 72. Proposition 72 would impose an estimated $7 billion in new taxes on employers and workers to finance a state-run healthcare system.
Whether or not you already provide healthcare coverage to your employees, Proposition 72 imposes significant new costs, reporting and compliance requirements on employers, increasing costs for your business and making California an even more difficult and expensive place in which to do business. For example:
- Proposition 72 requires employers to provide coverage for all workers who work 100 or more hours per month.
- Proposition 72 requires employers to pay for healthcare benefits after just three months on the job.
- Proposition 72 requires employers to pay at least 80 percent of the cost of coverage for workers.
- Proposition 72 requires employers with 200 or more employees to pay 80 percent of the cost of dependent and domestic partner coverage as well.
- Proposition 72 empowers an un-elected state board to set healthcare taxes and determine the benefits employers must provide.
According to the Los Angeles County Economic Development Corporation, Proposition 72 imposes an annual healthcare tax of $6,803 per employee on employers with 200 or more employees, and $2,482 per employee for smaller employers. Those costs will increase if the un-elected state board administering the program decides to expand benefits or pass on administrative cost overruns.
The campaign to stop this destructive job-killer from becoming law is now being organized. We can't let politicians "fix" the healthcare system like they "fixed" workers' comp! Support is urgently needed from businesses large and small throughout California. Survey results confirm that voters understand government-run health care would be an economic disaster for our state, but the campaign must reach voters with those messages in order to win -- and that takes money.
Please join our company and make a financial contribution to support the campaign to ensure you are not hit with ruinous health insurance costs if Proposition 72 becomes effective. A contribution of five percent of your company's estimated first-year costs will go a long way to help us stop this measure before it drives even more jobs out of California. Multiply the number of employees in your company by $6,803 (for employers with 200 or more employees) and consider a contribution in that amount. For smaller employers, multiply the number of employees by $2,482.
We have attached a fact sheet that provides more details, and you can read the entire analysis of the cost impacts of Proposition 72 on the campaign Web site, www.noprop72.org. A contribution form is also enclosed.
Every major newspaper in the state, including the Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Chronicle, San Jose Mercury News, San Diego Union-Tribune and Orange County Register agrees that this proposal would seriously damage California's economy.
The campaign can't win without the resources to communicate with voters. With our help, however, it won't fail. Please help us defeat this job-killer.
Attachments:
Contribution form
Fact sheet
NOTE: To download the above attachments, right-click on the link and choose either "Save target as..." or "Save link as..."
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