The release of the Michael Moore movie "Sicko" has Americans everywhere talking about the inadequacies of our nation's health-care system and the bureaucracy of the health-insurance industry. One scene in the movie shows Moore taking a boatload of former 9/11 rescue workers to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, in a futile attempt to get them the same care given to suspected Al Qaeda prisoners. Eve Tahmincioglu, author of the MSNBC.com Your Biz column, suggests that Moore should have taken entrepreneurs with him instead.
"We all think of lack of health-care coverage as a problem for the poor and unemployed, but small-business owners are also drowning in this nation's medical black hole," says Tahmincioglu, citing NFIB statistics as evidence of the burgeoning problem.
Coverage is so expensive that it sends some would-be small-business owners back to the corporate world; others simply go without, hoping against hope that their health will hold. One thing is certain, Tahmincioglu writes: With the majority of the country's jobs created by small business, it's in our best interest to find a fix.
Visit www.NFIB.com to find out what NFIB is doing to secure better health care for entrepreneurs or to learn more about Small-Business Health Plans, legislation that would allow small-business owners to join together through membership in trade associations to purchase health insurance at bulk rates.
