Greg Ganske: “this Kaiser Family Foundation survey gets right to that point. They asked these employers: How many of you will drop…”

“this Kaiser Family Foundation survey gets right to that point. They asked these employers: How many of you will drop your coverage for your employee? The answer was between 1 and 3 percent; 1 and 3 percent, significantly different from the inflated claims that you will hear from the business groups. But I want to point out a couple of additional things in this survey, and this is very interesting. Small business executives were asked this: Would you be in favor of requiring health plans by law to allow patients to sue health plans? This is going to surprise some of my colleagues on the Republican side. Favor, 61 percent; oppose, 30 percent. If you then ask the question: Would you still be in favor of it if it resulted in higher premiums? More than half still favor it. Why? It is just like this talk I gave to this group of businesswomen, small businesswomen back in my district about a month ago. We were talking about this issue. Do you know why? Because they are also consumers. They know that if their son or daughter has a skin problem like we have talked about with this poor little girl who is 11, and they have problems, they need to have recourse and remedy for it.”