1.   Even opponents of requiring employers to insure their workers agree that anything that works against employer-based insurance makes the whole system less efficient.

2.   He said he did not learn until later that it would affect Blue Cross and Blue Shield, which have contracts to handle Medicare claims and insure federal workers.

3.   It would allow anyone to buy private insurance through the program that insures federal workers, the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program.

4.   More cost-effective approaches would be either a single-payer plan or a mandate requiring employers to insure their workers.

5.   Most Americans now get their health insurance through employers, but why should hard-pressed employers insure their workers if the government will?

6.   Opponents say that many employers, faced with increasing costs of insuring workers, will simply stop covering their employees.

7.   She blistered Pizza Hut for insuring its workers in Germany and Japan, but not America.

8.   Smaller companies would insure their workers through voluntary health insurance purchasing cooperatives.

9.   The emerging agreement would overcome this problem by imposing two taxes on insurers, including large employers that insure their workers.

10.   They reasoned that companies that already insure workers would not only benefit from a level playing field, but would also enjoy reduced premiums themselves.