Byline: David Wenner
Oct. 3--Gov. Ed Rendell on Tuesday began his second push for a tax on businesses to help fund state-subsidized health insurance coverage for the uninsured.
The proposed 3 percent payroll tax, which would apply to businesses that don't provide employee health benefits, has already met opposition from business groups.
Those groups have argued that putting so much of the burden for addressing health care problems on employers is unfair, and a 3 percent payroll tax would eat into profits at struggling businesses.
Rendell said business owners who oppose his plan either don't understand it, or prefer to shift their workers' health care costs to ...