Small Business Owners Sound Off on Health Care Reform

The American Thinker ^ | September 24, 2009 | Brad O'Leary

[Scanian]

In his speech to Congress two weeks ago, President Obama made a strong sell to small business owners that his health care reform plan would be blessing, not a curse, for them. Indeed, the President directly addressed "small businesses" no fewer than nine times in his speech. Now that small business owners have heard from the President, it's time for the President to finally listen to small business owners.

The O'Leary Report recently teamed up with Zogby International to poll small business owners and officers to see what they think about various topics that are central to the health care reform debate. The results show why President Obama zeroed-in on small businesses in his nationally televised sales pitch. (The poll was conducted September 4-8 and surveyed 4,426 likely voters. The margin-of-error is plus-or-minus 1.5 percentage point. The size of the small business owner subsample 909. Readers may take the poll themselves at http://www.healthcarevote.com/ and email their answers to their congressmen and senators.).

[scooby321]

This turkey is dying. Why Humana does not file a lawsuit is beyond me.

[Diogenesis]

"A strong majority of small business owners (55 percent) think "expanding government's role
in health care will do more harm than good."
Conversely, only 38 percent think that a bigger government role "is necessary to control costs and expand coverage."

Seventy-seven percent of small business owners reject the idea of taxing employer-provided health care benefits,
while only 13 percent support the idea. "

[RoadTest]

“it’s time for the President to finally listen to small business owners.”

He won’t. Those jug-ears don’t work.

[Scanian]

Not when it comes to people who have ambition and initiative with an independent spirit.

They don’t need or want government so he doesn’t want to be bothered with them.

[RoadTest]

“Not when it comes to people who have ambition and initiative with an independent spirit.

They don’t need or want government so he doesn’t want to be bothered with them.”

Yeah - that’s the problem.