john zern is an executive vice president at aon consulting. when the program.ial goal is to expand coverage and to limit cost increases when comes to expanding coverage one of the many proposals out there is to mandate the companies offered health insurance. what is the business community reaction? but i would say mixed we recently conducted a survey of over a 1100 employers in the u.s. all sizes geographies and industries-63 percent of the respondents opposed a mandate. a lot of resistance? if paramount for short. when you look get a lot of different issues that come on with their employer mandate the methodology and lorries have to offer a myth in benefit levels and contributor a mythic minimum portion towards the employer mandate purses a penalty to opt out of it there's a lot of concern that the employer mandate start to undermine the employer basic health care system which is 93 percent of our respondents actually favored employer based health care system. we talk about mandatory coverage the specifics obviously still need to be put in place but you genera