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Over the course of three days – March 26, 27, 28 – the constitutionality of President Obama’s unprecedented health reform law will be debated by the U.S. Supreme Court. Forced into a historic high court review by NFIB and 26 states, the law is one of the greatest government threats ever to face small-business owners.
For more than three decades, the increasing cost of health-insurance coverage has been the No. 1 issue for the small-business community. NFIB has been engaging policymakers for years in hopes of achieving real reform that that addresses the cost of health care, as well as making access to health insurance more flexible, competitive, and easy to navigate. Obamacare does not address cost and instead seeks to reform the insurance companies more so than it does reform that benefits consumers in the form of lower health-care costs.
Moreover, it violates our Constitution by imposing an unprecedented mandate as a one-size-fits all solution that doesn’t serve most Americans.
The nation’s smallest employers are the job creators and the innovators. This law will have a detrimental impact on their ability to create jobs… AND they fight harder than any other group to keep the government from infringing on the freedoms we all enjoy.