A Thought About Health Insurance?

Instead of taxing everyone for National Health Insurance and placing everything into the hands of the Feds, why not give businesses, small businesses (backbone of America), tax credits so that they can afford to offer group insurance for their employees? I know a lot of small businesses who can't afford to offer it because it's very expensive. I'm one of the fortunate business owners who carries b/c & b/s, but the expense is astronomical. Wouldn't that also encourage a lot of dead beat people to find a job and still keep it out of the hands of large government who screw up everything they try to run?