-=> Bob Klahn wrote to All <=-

 BK>  This is why health care reform is good for the economy.

 BK>  http://tinyurl.com/yb3ge48

 BK> ************************************************************************
 BK> ** Businesses: Health care costs stymie expansion

 BK> That's from a survey of employers for
 BK> HealthPartners.

 BK> By CHEN MAY YEE, Star Tribune

 BK> Last update: February 5, 2010 - 11:25 PM

 BK> What's the biggest hurdle to growth for businesses today?

 BK> Clue: It's not the economy.

 BK> For about 180 employers polled in a survey commissioned
 BK> by HealthPartners, health care costs for employees
 BK> emerged as the most-common obstacle to business
 BK> expansion, more than the economy itself, access to funding
 BK> or flaccid consumer demand.

 BK> Twenty-one percent of employers cited affordable health
 BK> care as an obstacle to expansion, with government
 BK> regulations next (12 percent), followed the by economy
 BK> (11 percent). Global competition trailed at 5 percent.

That's all well and good. Except that it doesn't agree with the Stalinist Wing
of the Conservatives' talking points. 
 
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