Small Business for Affordable Healthcare is our site of the day

Published: October 11, 2007, 1:09 pm

Small Business for Affordable Healthcare is a coalition of small business owners and managers from across California, representing a variety of types and sizes of businesses, who believe that comprehensive healthcare reform is long overdue. Check out this site and you'll learn more about how small business owners are having a more difficult time than ever ensuring that their families and their employees have access to affordable health care, and how this in turn, impedes the ability of entrepreneurs to start new businesses and manage them effectively and efficiently. They point out that over 3 million small business employees in California are uninsured, including almost 600,000 sole proprietors. Health insurance premiums in the California small group market rose more than 50% between 2003 and 2006 -- 125% since 1999. Particularly timely is a poll they commissioned of randomly-selected small business owners and senior managers (limited to owners and senior managers of companies

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