On June 12, Small Business Majority Northern California Outreach Manager Suli Kenyatta tesitified in support of AB 2201. This egislation would help keep more California small business owners and their employees enrolled in Medi-Cal.
On February 27, Small Business Majority Georgia Director Rachel Shanklin sent a letter to the Georgia Committee on Health & Human Services in support of SB 380, legislation that would expand Medicaid statewide. Under this bill, Georgia would be able to draw on federal funding to cover low-income households and extend eligibility to cover a wider range of Georgians.
This issue brief, developed in partnership by Small Business Majority and the Georgetown University Center for Children and Families, examines the prevalence of Medicaid as a source of insurance for small business owners, employees, and their family members using 2024 data from the Census Bureau’s Current Population Survey Annual Social and Economic Supplement (CPS ASEC). Small businesses are defined as those with under 100 employees. Our analysis of 2019 data prior to the pandemic revealed similar shares.
On June 10, Small Business Majority and over 25 national and state organizations sent a letter urging the U.S. Senate to reject the nearly $800 billion in cuts to Medicaid outlined in the House-passed reconciliation bill which would strip coverage away from 7.8 million individuals. The letter emphasizes Medicaid's importance to the small business community and urges Congress to pursue alternative reforms, such as site-neutral payments, that would generate revenue without cutting individual coverage.
On May 6, Small Business Majority and 20 state and national organizations representing small business interests sent a letter to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, urging members to reject Medicaid cuts that would make it more difficult and costly for millions of small business owners and their employees to access affordable healthcare. The letter was sent ahead of the Committee’s reconciliation markup, where members will outline roughly $880 billion in spending cuts, including significant and harmful cuts to Medicaid.
Small Business Majority’s Voice of Main Street opinion poll series is a quarterly look at the challenges and opportunities that entrepreneurs in our network are facing when it comes to a range of issues.
On February 10, Small Business Majority Rachel Shanklin submitted comments to the Georgia Department of Community Health on the Georgia Pathways to Coverage 1115 Demonstration Waiver Extension.
On March 19, Small Business Majority's Georgia Director, Rachel Shanklin, submitted testimony for the record before the Georgia Senate Regulated Industries Committee on HB 1339. The proposal would establish a Comprehensive Health Coverage Commission to study the critical issue of closing the Medicaid coverage gap in Georgia.
Small businesses are rebounding from issues stemming from the pandemic, but rising healthcare costs are hurting their bottom lines and limiting their growth. New opinion polling reveals that small business owners strongly support bipartisan policy solutions that lower costs by setting price caps, increasing transparency and promoting competition in the healthcare industry.
On January 10, Small Business Majority's Georgia Director and National Women's Entrepreneurship Director, Rachel Shanklin, testified before the Georgia General Assembly at a hearing on Medicaid Expansion. She shared comments on the benefits of expanding healthcare coverage and its impacts to the small business ecosystem.
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