onthehillblog.blogspot.com - 7/30/2009
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Congressional Democrats and other supporters of comprehensive healthcare reform are following President Obama's lead in focusing on how reform will assist American small businesses.
What Healthcare Reform Means For: Small Businesses
onthehillblog.blogspot.com 21 days ago — Fairfield Lighting and Design has been in business since 1972, but it is struggling to cope with tough economic times. It has 12 employees, whose average wage is about $20 an hour. The recession has also made it difficult to keep paying their health care costs:
Small businesses turn against health plan
washingtontimes.com 8/24/2009 — Over the course of two years, the annual health insurance premiums at David White's auto shop in Bar Harbor, Maine, more than doubled from $23,000 to $47,000. "It was platinum coverage," he said of the insurance plan, which covered himself, three ...
Small Businesses
eschatonblog.com 6/13/2009 — If I were the benevolent dictator, one thing I would do is change how our government officially defines small businesses. The standards (.pdf) vary across industry classsifications, but maximum of 500 employees is common. I think when most people are ...
The Krauthammer Plan for Healthcare Reform
theglitteringeye.com 8/8/2009 — While I’m all in favor of the second component of Dr. Krauthammer’s proposal for healthcare reform:
Real health-insurance reform: Tax employer-provided health-care benefits and return the money to the employee with a government check to ...
Progressive Expert: 'Getting More Value For What We Put Into Healthcare'
onthehillblog.blogspot.com 7/24/2009 — President Obama touched down in Ohio today to promote his embattled healthcare reform proposal, including wringing greater efficiencies out of the U.S. healthcare system so as to get "more value for what we put into the health care system," as one healthcare expert puts it.
Small Businesses Struggle to Provide Health Coverage
healthreform.gov 8/13/2009 — Introduction Across the country, small businesses are struggling as the cost of health care continues to skyrocket. Americans who build and run the millions of small companies around this country have seen insurance costs consume a greater share of ...
Healthcare reform without tort reform is no reform
faustasblog.com 8/8/2009 — Another reason I’m opposed to the current healthcare proposals, or at least what we have found so far, is that it involves no tort reform. A couple of years ago, a pediatrician told me that he had to pay $250,000 per year in malpractice insurance coverage. The amount of money that his ...
How to Market Healthcare Reform
motherjones.com 7/22/2009 — As the healthcare debate plays out, we're all getting to see in real time the fundamental political contradictions that make it so hard to get anything done. The big lesson learned from the Clinton debacle of 1994 is that people who currently have ...
Businesses Far From Unified Against Health-Care Reform
washingtonpost.com 7/23/2009 — Comments that include profanity or personal attacks or other inappropriate comments or material will be removed from the site. Additionally, entries that are unsigned or contain "signatures" by someone other than the actual author will be removed. ...
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