{"id":69,"date":"2025-06-13T01:35:09","date_gmt":"2025-06-13T01:35:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/progpatriots.com\/?p=69"},"modified":"2025-06-13T01:54:10","modified_gmt":"2025-06-13T01:54:10","slug":"healthcare-to-support-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/progpatriots.com\/?p=69","title":{"rendered":"Healthcare to support business"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Two anecdotes, and something else  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  1. When George W. Bush bought his tax breaks for businesses by sending $200 \u201cstimulus checks\u201d to American taxpayers, incidentally reestablishing the deficit Clinton\u2019s administration had wiped out, I heard a BBC interview of an American businessperson.\u00a0 They asked her if the \u201cstimulus\u201d would have any effect and she said it would be negligible. Then they asked her what the government could do to help a small business like hers, and she said the most meaningful thing would be if she could get any help with the small fortune she spent to provide health insurance for her employees.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  2. When I worked in a tech corporation, a lot of the people I got to know had \u201cside hustles\u201d profiting from their skills and creativity.\u00a0 Some of these had a lot of potential as full time businesses, but whenever I asked someone about this, the response I got was that they couldn\u2019t risk losing health insurance for themselves and their families.\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  3. Not really an anecdote, but an observation from having worked in both companies with large populations of young, under-40 people, and other companies with a smaller, older 40 to 70) population.\u00a0 Risk adjustment takes into account the size of the risk pool and the age of the population.\u00a0 The smaller, older company paid a great deal more per employee than the large company.\u00a0 Paying for insurance is just one squeeze faced by Mom & Pop businesses facing competition from giant chains, whether that\u2019s retail, small manufacturing, or a service industry.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    Conclusion: if this nation truly wants to support small business and innovation, removing the healthcare risk by providing universal healthcare may be the single best tool we have. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    Two anecdotes, and something else   Conclusion: if this nation truly wants to support small business and innovation, removing the healthcare risk by providing universal healthcare may be the single best tool we have.  (You can support my small \u2013 I mean very tiny \u2013 business \u2013 I mean side hustle \u2013 by visiting my CafePress… Continue reading Healthcare to support business<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[9],"class_list":["post-69","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-healthcare","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/progpatriots.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/progpatriots.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/progpatriots.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/progpatriots.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/progpatriots.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=69"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/progpatriots.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70,"href":"https:\/\/progpatriots.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69\/revisions\/70"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/progpatriots.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/progpatriots.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/progpatriots.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}