In a recent congressional hearing of the House Small Business Committe Chairwoman Nydia Velazquez (D-N.Y.) stated that because smaller firms generally bear high administrative costs and higher premiums, only 36 percent of companies with 10 or fewer employees even provide health insurance while nearly all large firms offer it to their employees.
Yet in spite of all the dire statistics and projections the Republican continue the demand for bipartisan support for health care reform and at the same time demand from a minority position to the majority that the public option plan cannot be included in any health care reform. It is nothing more than a smoke screen by the Republicans to protect their largest campaign contributors in the private health care industry and pharmaceutical industry. If Democrats are serious about getting 70 - 80 votes in the Senate on health care reform then you can rest assured we will get nothing more than the status quo for the Health Insurance CEO's. If that is their plan for health care reform, then the more than 70% of Americans and small business owners that went to the polls demanding change should start actively campaigning to have these Democrats and Republicans replaced with politicians that WILL listen to the voice of the people.
If the Democrats were smart they would start touting their health reform legislation and the inclusion of the public option plan to lower health care costs for small business owners as a jobs creation bill which is exactly what it will do once it is passed.
Democrats have for too long mismanaged the messaging of their progressive platforms to small business owners and finally progressives like Ed Schultz on MSNBC are aiming to change this.
Brian England, the auto shop owner in Maryland, concluded in his CNN interview that he would like to see a government health care plan with an emphasis on preventative care. He said a government plan would force insurance companies to start offering competitive rates.
"I think once we get to doing that and everybody has insurance and we start to push it with the preventative care and community care, that's going to drive down the prices," England said.
Yet in spite of all the dire statistics and projections the Republican continue the demand for bipartisan support for health care reform and at the same time demand from a minority position to the majority that the public option plan cannot be included in any health care reform. It is nothing more than a smoke screen by the Republicans to protect their largest campaign contributors in the private health care industry and pharmaceutical industry. If Democrats are serious about getting 70 - 80 votes in the Senate on health care reform then you can rest assured we will get nothing more than the status quo for the Health Insurance CEO's. If that is their plan for health care reform, then the more than 70% of Americans and small business owners that went to the polls demanding change should start actively campaigning to have these Democrats and Republicans replaced with politicians that WILL listen to the voice of the people.
If the Democrats were smart they would start touting their health reform legislation and the inclusion of the public option plan to lower health care costs for small business owners as a jobs creation bill which is exactly what it will do once it is passed.
Democrats have for too long mismanaged the messaging of their progressive platforms to small business owners and finally progressives like Ed Schultz on MSNBC are aiming to change this.
"I think once we get to doing that and everybody has insurance and we start to push it with the preventative care and community care, that's going to drive down the prices," England said.
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