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Glendale Small Business Owner: Lawmakers Should Reject HB 2290

March 24, 2023 Last Edit: May 8, 2025

NFIB Member Cliff Wixon warns against bill that would increase health care costs for small business owners and Arizona taxpayers, highlights NFIB survey

Glendale Small Business Owner: Lawmakers Should Reject HB 2290

GLENDALE (March 24, 2023) – “Businesses of all sizes face the increasing cost of health care every year as they review the health benefits they offer to their employees. A new survey from NFIB found that a whopping 94% of local job creators ‘find it challenging to some degree for their business to manage the cost of offering employer-sponsored health insurance,’ with almost half of small employers reportedly taking a lower profit or suffering a loss to pay for insurance premium increases in the past five years,” NFIB member and small business owner Cliff Wixson wrote in an op-ed for the Arizona Capitol Times. “Bills like HB2290 are part of the reason health care costs continue to increase — more mandates on an already heavily regulated industry will result in increased costs to consumers.” CLICK HERE to view the NFIB survey’s findings. CLICK HERE to read the full op-ed. Excerpts are below: HB2290 will increase health care costs Cliff Wixson Arizona Capitol Times March 23, 2023 Arizona’s job creators look warily at policy proposals that will increase health care costs. […] Employer-provided insurance delivers widespread access to health care for workers across all industries, business sizes, and their families. […] The question was posed recently on these pages why businesses large and small would oppose HB2290. The answer is simple: HB2290 will increase the cost of health care and add significant costs to Arizona taxpayers. […] Businesses of all sizes face the increasing cost of health care every year as they review the health benefits they offer to their employees. A new survey from NFIB found that a whopping 94% of local job creators “find it challenging to some degree for their business to manage the cost of offering employer-sponsored health insurance,” with almost half of small employers reportedly taking a lower profit or suffering a loss to pay for insurance premium increases in the past five years. Bills like HB2290 are part of the reason health care costs continue to increase — more mandates on an already heavily regulated industry will result in increased costs to consumers. […] HB2290 is a classic example of a solution in search of a problem. […] Instead, HB2290 proposes that we make Arizona’s system for addressing claims disputes more expensive for businesses and taxpayers and more complicated for everyone by inserting lawyers into medical decision-making. We urge lawmakers to reject this proposal. Cliff Wixson is the owner and CEO of Cliffco LLC.

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