Health Care Reform: A Problem, or The Solution?
ByCarol Tice•
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It's been a crazy couple weeks on the national healthcare reform issue.Angry mobshave turned up to shout at legislators at town hall meetings.Academicshave decried the 8 percent payroll tax businesses that businesses would pay if they fail to offer their employees healthcare coverage under the proposedAmerica's Affordable Health Choices Act. Many prominent business associations including theInternational Franchise Associationhave urged that legislators let the marketplace solve the problem.But over in another corner is a growing drumbeat of pro-reform sentiment within the small business community. TheDivided We Failcoalition brings togetherAARP, the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), theBusiness Roundtableand theNational Federation of Independent Business,去al of helping Republicans and Democrats come together to hammer out a middle-ground universal healthcare solution.
Recently, the Center for Economy Policy Research released astudy这表明美国的小企业和self-employment levels pale when compared with those of other nations -- 19 other countries had higher rates than our puny 7.2%. One of the study's posited reasons for our poor showing: the lack of universal access to healthcare
What do you think -- is our healthcare system part of the problem? Or would the cost of universal healthcare be an even bigger problem?
