Today we will get our first glimpse of the President’s latest health care proposal. President Obama would be wise to talk with the small business owner from Philadelphia who wrote the following Op-Ed: Health care, jobs are linked. He effectively builds the case for a health care proposal that Sen. Talent championed in the House and Senate: Association Health Plans (AHP’s). AHP’s would allow small businesses to pool together through national trade associations to offer insurance to their employees. This is a small fix that would go a long way toward covering the millions of uninsured and it would create certainty in the business community that could give business owners the confidence they need to hire again. AHP’s were filibustered in the Senate despite strong bipartisan support in both chambers by many of the same politicians still in office today.
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