Small business owners are optimistic about their future says a recently released Bank of America survey. That’s the good news. The bad news is that small business owners are concerned about losing qualified employees to larger businesses because of benefits. According to the survey 18% said that providing competitive healthcare and retirement benefits is their […]
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All during the debate on healthcare reform both before Obamacare and after some business organizations, including the National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB), argued for a “free-market” approach. One favorite proposal was to allow insurance to be sold to individuals across state lines which would require that states to give up their authority to mandate
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One of the provisions of the Affordable Care Act–Obamacare–is the requirement that 80% to 85% of health insurance premiums go toward actual medical costs and not to overhead and profit of the insurers. Otherwise the policy holder is due a refund at the end of the year. This medical loss ratio went into effect in
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April 4, 2012 By Frank Knapp Jr. LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Health law helping small businesses I agree with Ben Homeyer’s comment that “our health-care system is broken” (“Business can help craft better health law,”March 26). However, I do not agree with his negative opinion of the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare). On behalf of the
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Published on April 3, 2012 By Adrienne Burke | SmallBizVote Many news outlets this week are speculating about how a Supreme Court decision to throw out the Affordable Care Act could affect election results. Regardless of how the Court’s decision helps or hurts the incumbent or his GOP opponent, overturning Obamacare would be a disaster
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Published on April 2, 2012 By Frank Knapp, Jr., Vice-Chairman, American Sustainable Business Council | The Hill’s Congress Blog The Supreme Court has now completed its three days of hearing on provisions within the Affordable Care Act (ACA),or “Obamacare” as even the president’s reelection campaign is now calling it. Opponents of the ACA will continue
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So you didn’t get one of the approximately 170 seats in the Supreme Court for yesterday’s opening hearing on the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Well, I didn’t either but I did get to talk to someone who was in the Chamber. Elizabeth Wydra is the chief counsel for the Constitutional Accountability Center. She practices before
The National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB) is basking in the media attention as being one of the plaintiffs against the Affordable Care Act. The Supreme Court starts hearing the case today. (Yesterday the New York Times did an excellent short summary of what will happen during each of the three days.) Today I received
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Published on May 22, 2012 The Post and Courier BY FRANK KNAPP JR. AND SUE BERKOWITZ Today marks the second anniversary of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), the national health care reform that continues to inspire as much controversy and misinformation as it did the day it was signed into law by President Obama. While
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These must have been the worst two weeks in David Black’s life. What started in February as a new career adventure for the former president and CEO of the Liberty Life Insurance Company in Greenville, dissolved into a nightmare for the Director of the S.C. Department of Insurance who resigned yesterday. Weighing heavily on Mr.
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