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Article: Healing hands: how some states are easing the health insurance burden.(health insurance program for companies)
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- Entrepreneur
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- March 1, 2006
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PROVIDING employees with health coverage is a straggle for Carrie Howard, co-owner of DJ's Industrial Rubber Products, a six-employee Oklahoma City company that sells fire-hose fittings. Even with 2005 sales at $1 million, the company can't afford to cover its employees. Howard says, "If they could have a $20 copay, or any help with prescriptions, they would do it."
Howard, 42, and the company's employees could get help very soon from the state government. In November, Oklahoma started the Oklahoma Employer/Employee Partnership for Insurance Coverage, a voter-approved statewide health insurance program for companies with fewer than 25 employees. Funded largely ...