On the recordMay 18, 1994
small businesses try to provide comprehensive health care for their workers, but they suffer a distinct competitive disadvantage. On average they pay 35 to 50 percent more just to provide the same coverage as larger businesses. Most often this simply prohibits them from offering the coverage they would like to. Health care reform will ease the burdens heaped on these businesses, giving them choice and flexibility where they now have little. Health care reform will allow small businesses to offer real, comprehensive coverage instead of having to settle for bare bones programs. Reform will prevent insurance companies from shifting costs onto the backs of small businesses. Reform will give small businesses more leverage in negotiating with insurance companies. Small businesses will get a better deal out of reform. It will save them money, and give them the power to expand and create jobs with the savings.
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