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Health care fight
heads to House
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Release Date:
07/19/99
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As the Senate defeated a bill
opposed by NFIB last week, the House is ready to
take up health reform legislation this week,
with battles over increased liability to be
renewed. Some House proposals would introduce
costly new mandates and place employers at a
greater risk of being sued over a denied health
claim.
The Patients Bill of Rights was
defeated in the Senate last week, although a
proposal that creates new mandates and increases
costs for small business owners was passed. The
House Commerce Committee might debate health
reform legislation as early as
Wednesday.
The health reform debate
strikes at the core of Main Street's most
pressing concern: the high cost of health care.
For years, small employers have considered the
high cost of health care to be the
single-greatest impediment to continuing its
leadership of the nation's economic
expansion.
Small business owners support
true-market based reform measures, like the
expansion of Association Health Plans (AHPs),
which provide small companies economies of scale
and give Main Street firms the same
opportunities enjoyed by self-insured firms that
are exempt from state and federal
mandates.
7.19.1999
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