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A San Angelo home builder stated that the senate health care reform bill unfairly targets the construction company. Tony Jones was angry about a measure ordering construction companies to offer health insurance if they have five employees or more and annual payrolls of $250,000 or more. Otherwise, those companies could overcome a $750 fine per employee. In other industries, firms with fewer than 50 employees are avoided. The provision is part of the bill senate democrats agreed to approve. If they do, Congress could start work on melding the House and senate bills into a final version. The steps applying to the construction industry might or might not be in the final version. The national association of home builders made its members alert and urged them to contact their congressional representatives. This narrow provision is an unprecedented attack on the construction industry and unjustly targets an industry trying to keep its doors open during the worst housing down turn since the great depression. The construction industry has to forgo more than 1 million workers since August according to the Bureau of Labor statistics. Overall unemployment was at 10% in early Dec., but the unemployment rate for construction workers was 19.4% at that time. The government should stay out of planning health insurance for businesses.