Summary In 2004, people organized on the initiative Proposition 72 that employers should pay for a higher portion of health care premiums. Nurses, Doctors, Educators, and workers’ unions stood by this proposition. As a result of voting “yes” on Proposition 72, it would require employers with two hundred or more employees to pay about eighty percent of premium rates. Since the U.S. leaves the accessibility of health insurance to employers, passing Proposition 72 would lower premium rates in the economy, making it overall more affordable for people to purchase their companies’ health insurance. However, many large corporations such as Macy’s, McDonalds, and Walmart invested in the campaign against the proposition. In the end, the vote came down …show more content…
Thus, passing this proposition would reinforce that the costs of premiums are reasonably split among employers and employees to ensure that employees have affordable health care insurance premiums, deductibles, and …show more content…
Kerr the President of the California Teachers Association. Representing their organizations, they signed the ballot arguments and helped bring more publicity to the campaign. In regards to major financial contributors California Teachers Association were also large stakeholders in the support of the campaign as they donated approximately one million dollars. The California Teachers Association stood by this proposition since it would ensure that there would be more equity in receiving health care coverage for all individuals ranging from the lower income brackets. Similar reasoning as the Food and Commercial Workers Union, as many minimum wages low income employees are underpaid and overworked under dire working conditions. Their one million dollar contribution also helped throughout the campaign in order to push for voters to support and vote “yes” on the ballot. Following these main contributors, the California Healthcare Association collected about $970,000. In hopes of having more equitable rights to health care insurance, the proposition would ensure that approximately 1 million more Californians would be insured under the proposition and SB 2. Other major contributors were the California Federation of Teachers and