Boehner and small business: Does the thought really count?
Posted on October 15th, 2009 by Sam Blair, Main Street Alliance in From Our Partners
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At a press conference today, House Republican Leader John Boehner talked about the importance of helping small businesses create jobs to get the economy going again (see his “leader alert” here). Nice thought.
There’s just one problem: health care is one of the top issues small businesses need addressed so we can do our part for economic recovery – and Boehner is standing square in the way of real health reform. His political grandstanding against health care reform is, simply put, bad for small business.
Every day, small businesses are being forced to drop health coverage, lay off employees or shut their doors for good because of rising health care costs. Without reform, small business health care costs will more than double over the next ten years – we’ll pay close to $2.4 trillion in health care costs between now and 2018. That’s money small businesses could be using to create the jobs to jumpstart the economy.
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