Inclusive Healthcare.
Hey, here's a thought. When you want to talk about an anti-business-development problem of massive nature, why not start with health care?
It is incredibly difficult for a company to provide health care to its employees. The costs have escalated dramatically (like almost 50%) over the past couple of years.
Using the "corporation" as an organizing group for the purposes of negotiating health care is STUPID. Employers change, grow, shrink, and move around.
I'm not saying you have to take it away. It's fine for those who want it, and those companies that _choose_ to provide it.
Rather, I'm saying that there should be other units of organization. Why not have a Fairfax County Heath Plan? FC negotiates a good rate, and possibly even a choice of plans. Anybody in FC is welcome to join the plan. FC acts like a corporation in this regard -- it becomes an organizing group. It selects from the available health plans and makes that group rate available. FC can subsidize for its employees, but doesn't for the residents of the area.
Any local government can do this instantly by informing its insurance company that forthwith, the plan will have to be made available to any legal resident of the area. That resident will have to pay the full cost of it, but it's available.
If these kinds of plans spring up everywhere, it'll get control over what's going on.
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