Last Minute Survey Says Micros Dislike Health Reform
Mar 22nd, 2010 | By Dawn Rivers | Category: PodcastsIt’s kind of ironic that I’m leading with a story about how microbusiness owners don’t like the health care reform proposal on the very morning after the House voted to approve it and send it to the President’s desk.
It brings to an end one of the ugliest political fights I’ve seen since the Civil Rights Movement. I think the New York Times’ Paul Krugman describes it well:
“[T]he emotional core of opposition to reform was blatant fear-mongering, unconstrained either by the facts or by any sense of decency.”
I want to say that, whatever your opinion of reform might be, I’d hope you can see the justice of that remark but I sincerely doubt that any of those Tea Party types would agree. Then again, judging them by their behavior at that protest last weekend, they seem to be a pack of closet Klansmen anyway.
But I digress.
Also in this week’s microbusiness news, we have patent reform redux — a new and improved reform proposal that is eerily similar to one I was writing about three years ago. And the House Small Business Committee takes a look at business incubators and job growth.
For more information:
- National Association for the Self-Employed
- House Committee on Small Business
- Press Release: Leahy, et al Unveil Details Of Patent Reform Agreement
- Small Business Patent Data Collection Act (THOMAS)
