Interview Availability: Small Business Owners Available to Speak About How Healthcare Reform May Improve Their Ability to Compete with Larger Chains
Small business owners who offer insurance to their employees in order to attract and retain quality workers have long been at a disadvantage to larger chain businesses that don't. Small business owners who traditionally compete with big chains available to comment on franchisees' recent comments about raising prices or cutting employees' hours because of insurance requirement.
WHO: Nick Martin, co-owner, Ian's Pizza, Madison, WI Mark Hodesh, Owner, Downtown Home and Garden, Ann Arbor, MI
AVAILABLE TO DISCUSS: How the Affordable Care Act levels the playing field for small businesses that provide insurance to their employees; how requirements in healthcare law may improve their ability to compete with larger chain businesses who will have to offer insurance to employees in 2014.
WHEN: Available for interviews today and this week.
TO REQUEST AN INTERVIEW: Contact Allison Abney, Media Relations Manager at Small Business Majority: (202) 289-0957; [email protected]
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