There’s no shortage of allegations that small business will be hurt by healthcare legislation, as Nancy Duff Campbell, a founder and co-president of the National Women’s Law Center, points out today at Reuters, with: “Women small business owners really need healthcare reform“ (subtitled: We need reform.)
Small businesses owners are suffering from the current system. That graduated surcharge that some say is a job killer? Campbell found that only 1.2% of all taxpayers, including 4-5% of those with some business income, would be affected. Not exactly a death-knell for job creation when you examine the spin coming from big insurance companies more closely.
Read more: http://obamesque.wordpress.com/2009/08/05/myth-busters-small-business-owners-jobs-and-health-insurance-reform/
The problem is that special interest dollars are controlling the news, just as they are influencing congress. It’s not surprising that those who benefit from the current system are scrambling to look contrite while striving to protect their profits. It’s not surprising that big business would adopt the Rovian tactics of winning a few key votes here and there to quietly control the outcome.
It isn’t right, though, that millions of dollars each day – collected by big health insurance providers from their subscribers – are being spent for ads and lobbyists in DC instead of to pay for health care. It isn’t right that most of the main stream media is pandering to the big money to preserve their ad revenues, either. There are times when measuring success in dollars just isn’t the right equation.
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