James Gelfand looks at health care employer mandates on the National Journal's Health Care Experts Blog:

Unfortunately, many in Congress have divorced themselves from reality and think that a mandate on employers to provide health insurance coverage or pay new taxes will help workers. This couldn’t be further from the truth...First of all, who is insisting on these policies? Unions and the front groups (“coalitions”) they fund and run. Keep in mind, these same unions, who are demanding that others pay, have managed to convince many lawmakers that unions should be exempt from a new tax on benefits – meaning that every non-union working American will be subsidizing unions. Remember that unions see the whole health reform debate as a money-making opportunity...

James breaks down all of the proposals in the piece, but I want to stop for a moment and adjust the large EFCA banner hanging outside the AFL-CIO:

That looks about right, and yet so, so wrong.