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Greg Ganske: “A recent survey by Kaiser Family and Harvard interviewed 800 small business executives exactly on this issue. They found…”

On the recordJune 23, 1998
A recent survey by Kaiser Family and Harvard interviewed 800 small business executives exactly on this issue. They found that even if there were a mild increase in the cost of a premium related to this, that only 1 to 3 percent of those employers would change their coverage. But the interesting thing was that something like two-thirds of those small business owners and executives agreed with the need for legislation to close that loophole. You might ask, why is that? It is because they are also covered by HMOs. More than 50 percent of them have said, we have seen abuses by HMOs either in our employees or in our own families, and we think there should be a remedy for that.
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Greg Ganske
Republican · Iowa
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Discussing the impact of proposed health legislation on small businesses and their insurance coverage.

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