http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=112966370What a deal! Get insurance for half the price and make your fellow citizens foot the difference!
<>This program came about because small businesses
cannot afford to provide health insurance to their employees. Unlike large
businesses, small businesses don't get the price breaks of large group insurance
plans. In many states, small businesses employ a large number of workers
-- these workers, often low wage earners, are left with no access to affordable
health care.
One could argue, if taxpayer revenues are used to
subsidize public employees health insurance, than why not small businesses? Shouldn't we create a health care system where
people have access to purchase affordable health insurance?
The health insurance exchange, which health care
reform legislation would establish, would provide a marketplace for the
uninsured -- many employees of small businesses -- to shop and purchase
affordable health insurance policies.
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