Press Releases

North Dakota Small Business Owners Eager for Healthcare Reform

Press Release Date:
Tuesday, September 8, 2009

Research Shows Small Business Owners Believe Healthcare Reform is Necessary and Important to Getting the Economy Back on Track

Sausalito, CA, Sept. 8, 2009:  Recent research shows the majority of North Dakota small businesses are struggling due to the high costs of healthcare, and believe healthcare reform is necessary and important in getting the economy back on track.

A statewide survey of 200 randomly selected small businesses found that affordability is the primary obstacle in obtaining health insurance. North Dakota was one of 15 states polled over the past six months by Small Business Majority, a leading national small business advocacy organization focused on healthcare reform.

Topic(s):
Healthcare

California Small Business Owners Eager for Healthcare Reform

Press Release Date:
Tuesday, September 1, 2009

Research Shows Small Business Owners Believe Healthcare Reform is Necessary and Important to Getting the Economy Back on Track

Sausalito, CA, Sept. 1, 2009: Recent research shows the majority of California small businesses are struggling due to the high costs of healthcare, and believe healthcare reform is necessary and important in getting the economy back on track.

Topic(s):
Healthcare

Media Advisory

Press Release Date:
Friday, August 28, 2009

Report Shows California Small Business Owners Eager for Healthcare Reform

Polling Data Showing California Small Business Owners Opinions on Healthcare Reform will be Released at a Press Conference at 11 am on Tuesday, Sept. 1, 2009.

 

WHAT: Research showing the majority of California small business owners believe healthcare reform is necessary and important to getting the economy back on track will be released at a telephone press conference on Tuesday, Sept. 1, 2009 at 11 am.

Topic(s):
Healthcare

Alaska small business owners eager for healthcare reform

Press Release Date:
Thursday, August 6, 2009

Research Shows Small Business Owners Willing to be Part of a Solution that Makes High-quality Healthcare Affordable and Available to All

Anchorage, AK, August 6, 2009: Recent research shows the majority of Alaska small business owners believe healthcare reform is necessary, and are willing to be part of a solution that controls costs and guarantees coverage for everyone.

Topic(s):
Healthcare

Small Business Majority joins senators Durbin, Landrieu, Lincoln and Merkley at press conference on healthcare reform and small business

Press Release Date:
Wednesday, July 29, 2009

Washington, DC, July 29, 2009: Small Business Majority's National Policy Director Terry Gardiner joined Assistant Senate Majority Leader Dick Durbin, Senate Small Business Committee Chair Mary Landrieu, Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions member Jeff Merkley and Senate Finance Committee member Blanche Lincoln at a press conference at the Capitol today to discuss how healthcare reform will ease economic pressure on small businesses.

Topic(s):
Healthcare

Louisiana Small Business Owners Eager for Healthcare Reform

Press Release Date:
Wednesday, July 22, 2009

Research Shows Small Business Owners Willing to be Part of a Solution that Makes High-quality Healthcare Affordable and Available to All

Sausalito, CA, July 22, 2009: Recent research shows the majority of Louisiana small business owners believe healthcare reform is necessary, and are willing to be part of a solution that controls costs and guarantees coverage for everyone.

A statewide survey of small business owners found that affordability is the primary obstacle in obtaining health insurance. Louisiana was one of 14 states polled over the past three months by Small Business Majority, a leading national small business advocacy organization focused on healthcare reform.

Topic(s):
Healthcare

House and Senate healthcare reform bills major step forward

Press Release Date:
Thursday, July 16, 2009

The House tri-committee and Senate HELP healthcare reform bills unveiled this week are a major step forward in fixing our nation's broken healthcare system. We commend the committees' efforts to bring us to this point.

Topic(s):
Healthcare

Statement for the record before House Committee on Education and Labor on the tri-committee draft proposal for healthcare reform

Press Release Date:
Tuesday, June 23, 2009

Click PDF below to read press statement.

Topic(s):
Healthcare

Small business encouraged by house tri-committee healthcare reform draft bill

Press Release Date:
Friday, June 19, 2009

Statement by John Arensmeyer, CEO, Small Business Majority:

Small Business Majority is encouraged by the three House committees that have collaborated on an important new discussion draft to reform our broken healthcare system. The high cost of health insurance is the most important issue for American entrepreneurs, limiting the formation and expansion of untold numbers of businesses their #1 need is comprehensive healthcare reform.

Our research shows that small business owners want and need reform 72% of small business owners in our scientific polls across the country say they are struggling to afford health insurance.

Topic(s):
Healthcare

Healthcare relief for small businesses is possible with shared responsibility reform model

Press Release Date:
Wednesday, June 17, 2009

Yesterday a bipartisan group of lawmakers in the House expressed concern about the possibility of healthcare reform placing too much of a financial burden on small businesses.

Topic(s):
Healthcare

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