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05/26/2010: Reuters: Main Street Alliance offers alternative voice for small business by Deborah L. Cohen
Deborah L. Cohen profiles Iowa Main Street Alliance leader ReShonda Young in this piece about MSA’s role as a new voice for small businesses:
“After failing to secure affordable health insurance for workers at her family’s small business in Waterloo, Iowa, ReShonda Young took up the fight for healthcare reform. But when she looked around for support, she felt her views were not represented by the lobbying groups that lumped small business interests into one unified camp, often along conservative party lines…”
Read the full story at Reuters.com
04/06/09: Crain’s Chicago Business: The health care debate by Kevin Davis
… A growing number of small and mid-sized businesses also are favoring some form of government-led reform.
Bob Haskin, owner of Zip Specialties Inc., a small, family-run promotions company in Wheeling, is a member of the Illinois Main Street Alliance, a progressive group of 350 small and mid-sized businesses that advocates revamping the health insurance system. Membership has been growing by about 50 a month…
03/14/09: Idaho Press-Tribune: Cancer changes life by Jesse Nance
Everything changed for Jose Huerta when his son was diagnosed with cancer six years ago.
At the time a mill worker at a Fruitland company, Huerta’s wages couldn’t keep pace with his son’s mounting medical costs. So he started Panaderia Estrella, a bakery in downtown Caldwell, to help cover his family’s medical bills.
02/26/09: Chicago Tribune: Rising costs prompting small businesses to drop health insurance benefits by Bruce Japsen
David Borris, owner of Hel’s Kitchen Catering in Northbrook, has seen the cost of his company’s health insurance premiums double to $457 a month per employee since 2002. And forget about offering family coverage: Borris provides individual insurance for 13 of his 25 full-time employees.
“It’s fundamentally unfair for me not to provide coverage for everybody, but I can’t afford it,” Borris said. “I have 9.4 percent of my payroll going to health insurance … and that’s a little nuts.”
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