Greg Ganske: “Significantly less than the question, which had a two-thirds majority positive answer. We often hear from the opponents…”

“Significantly less than the question, which had a two-thirds majority positive answer. We often hear from the opponents to this, well, small business is really against this. All of those small businesses would stop covering their employees. It would mean that more and more people would not have insurance. Okay. This is very interesting, because today, actually yesterday, Kaiser Family, Kaiser-Harvard Program at the Public and Health Social Policy Institute, the Kaiser Family Foundation released a survey done of 800 small business people across the country. So these are the employers, these are the small business employers. What did they find? They found that small business executives are pretty much just like everyone else in the public. They think that there is a need for Federal legislation on this. Let me provide some specifics. Questions to the small business executives, the ones who are providing the insurance to the majority of people in this country: Would you favor a law requiring health plans to provide more information about how they operate? 89 percent favored; 5 percent opposed. Would you favor a law requiring health plans to require ability to appeal health plans decisions? 88 percent favored; 8 percent opposed. They continue to ask these small business executives: Would you favor a law requiring plans to allow direct access to gynecologists? 84 percent favored.”