Tennessee Small Business Owners Join 100 Others in DC to Talk Healthcare Reform at Capitol, White House
Tennessee Small Business Owners Join 100 Others in DC on Nov. 3 to Discuss Need for Healthcare Reform with Congress Members and Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius
Washington DC, Nov. 2, 2009: Four Tennessee small business owners will join a group of more than 100 other small business owners in Washington, DC, on Nov. 3, where they will spend the day speaking about small businesses. I need for healthcare reform with their Congressional representatives on Capitol Hill, and with US Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius at the White House. Molly Secours, owner of One Woman Show Productions in Nashville, Murray Hudson, owner of Antiquarian Books, Maps, Prints and Globes in Halls, Mark Jacobs, owner of Burroughs-Ross-Colville Co. in McMinnville and Greg Garr, owner of Garr Landscaping in Murfreesboro, will accompany other small business owners from 24 states to DC. They will start the day on Capitol Hill meeting with their representatives, and cap it off with a visit to the White House, where Sebelius will brief them on healthcare. Our elected officials need to hear that without meaningful healthcare reform, small businesses will continue to be crippled by insurance costs," said Molly Secours, who battled uterine cancer only to have to then deal with a mountain of debt. As a sole proprietor, insurance is increasingly prohibitive, and since the cancer treatments my premiums have doubled. I want to look into my elected officials eyes and tell them this may be the last chance to fix this broken system. The time for reform is now. This small business Day in DC is sponsored by: American Booksellers Association, American Independent Business Alliance (AMIBA), Business Forward, Consumers Union, Employee Benefits Cooperative (AEBC), Main Street Alliance, National Council of Asian American Businesses, National Gay & Lesbian Chamber of Commerce, New Voice of Business, Massachusetts Fishermen's Partnership, Small Business Majority, U.S. Public Interest Research Group.
About Small Business Majority Small Business Majority is a national nonprofit organization focused on solving the single biggest problem facing America's 27 million small businesses: the skyrocketing cost of healthcare. It conducts extensive opinion and economic research and works with small business owners, healthcare policy experts and elected officials nationwide to bring nonpartisan small business voices to the public policy table. About Tennessee Small Business Coalition The Tennessee Small Business Coalition (TSBC) is a project of the Tennessee Health Care Campaign (THCC), a non-profit, non-partisan organization working for guaranteed affordable choices in health care. TSBC was formed to give a voice to small business owners as they struggle to secure affordable and quality health care for themselves and their employees. Coalition partners share a common vision of practical health care reform that works for America's small business owners. The Coalition creates opportunities for small business owners to speak for themselves about health care and present solutions for fixing America's health care system. Our growing network includes small businesses and self-employed people from across Tennessee. For more information, visit www.tnsmallbusinesscoalition.org.