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HeyBub[_3_]

wrote:

Anything is possible, but if current employees have health care, it's
more likely that new employees will have the same or lower health care
costs.

Why lower?

Because the new health care law requires that everyone have coverage.
Companies will no longer be paying extra so that the uninsured can get
charity care.

Businesses are making more money than ever. We can see that in the
quarterly reporting. Earnings keep climbing. They aren't investing
in new capacity because demand is lacking.

No, they are not investing because they are stockpiling cash for other
things, contingencies. What other things? Well, nobody knows, but the
uncertainty over their imminent insurance costs is, for sure, one bucket
they want filled.