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Survey says! Health care top priority for workers
More than anything else, small business owners want lawmakers to work on health care. That's the finding of the fourth annual survey done by Small Business California. You can read all the stats on their site, but here's a summary: • 62 percent of small business owners surveyed thought the state was moving in the wrong direction. • 66 percent said the climate for small business is "poor" or "very poor." Asked what the highest priority is, people said: 1. Cost of Health Care-86% What's your highest priority as an employee or employer? — Christine Peterson 1 comments from 1 users
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adampayne
on Mar 18, 2008 at 05:20 PM
More and more people can no longer afford health care, and small business can no longer afford to offer it to their employees. If you have a pre-condition you will be denied health care coverage or will be priced out of the market. Republicans have no plan to address and correct the skyrocketing costs of health insurance. Offering some type of tax break or credit of $15,000 will do nothing to stem continual premium increases and medical practice increases . Offering a health savings plan to use pre-tax dollars will do nothing to halt premium increases and medical practice increases in the market place. We are very close to ground zero concerning many financial albatrosses that industrialist cartels have hung on the necks of the working people. Next to being homeless in America, being without health care is about the worst place you can be today. If a small accident happens a person could find that they are hopelessly in debt the rest of their life with little chance to get out from under. Medical debt is worse than sub-prime mortgage debt. At least with a sub-prime mortgage debt you can release your house to the lenders to stop the hemorrhaging. No one gets to walk away from medical debt. But for those of you who can afford Johns-Hopkins, Stanford or the USC medical facilities you will get treated to the best there is. Too bad there are so few of us that can afford those facilities.
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