FCL ACTION ALERTS
May 05, 2005

Small Businesses Survey: Universal Health Care

Dear FCL Supporter,

Attached is a recent article from the Los Angeles Business Journal along with the results of a survey of 475 small conducted for Small Business California. Clearly, small business owners want to provide their employees with health insurance. When asked to identify their main issues concerning their businesses, the survey found that:

• Eighty-eight percent said that the availability and rising cost of health care was either their top priority or a high priority; furthermore,

• Fifty-two percent of the small businesses surveyed strongly or somewhat favored a single-payer health care system.

The effort to create a universal health care system for California is clearly a struggle of people power versus corporate power. Opponents will argue that SB 840, the California Health Insurance Reliability Act (CHIRA), will be especially hard on small businesses. According to a study by the Lewin Group (http://www.healthcareforall.org/lewin.pdf), most households and small businesses will see a reduction in their health care costs when CHIRA becomes law.

WHAT YOU CAN DO:
Send letters to the editors of your local newspaper and share the results of survey and CHIRA's benefits for small businesses; talk to your local chamber of commerce and other civic groups about the results of the survey and how CHIRA benefits everyone, small businesses included.

Sincerely yours,

Jim Lindburg
Legislative Advocate
 

http://www.fclca.org
E-mail: JimL@fclca.org
Phone: (916) 443-3734
Fax:     (916) 448-6109

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