James M. Talent: “It is a bill to allow small businesspeople to create association health plans. This bill is not a Government program. In…”

“It is a bill to allow small businesspeople to create association health plans. This bill is not a Government program. In a time of great deficits, it does not require us to spend any money. It is going to take a long step toward solving the problems of the uninsured, reducing the number of the uninsured, and getting working people better health insurance at less cost. It does not cost the taxpayers anything because all it does is allow people to work together and do for themselves, as small businesspeople and employees of small businesses, what big companies and employees of big companies can already do.”