|
Posted: 4:59 PM Jul 15, 2009
Businessmen Ask VA Congressmen to Support Health Care Plan
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) Two small business owners who couldn't afford health insurance called on Virginia's congressional delegation to support pending health care reform legislation.
|
|
1 Comments 
Two small business owners who couldn't afford health insurance called on Virginia's congressional delegation to support pending health care reform legislation.
About two dozen supporters gathered in a Richmond park Wednesday to push for affordable health care reform.
Optometrist Ken Brantley talked about how he couldn't get a group health insurance plan for his downtown practice because his wife was pregnant.
Lauren Wray and her husband bought his family's small online banner company five months ago. She told about how the family's unpaid medical bills have made it difficult for her business to survive.
The $600 billion measure introduced Tuesday would require individuals to get health insurance and employers to contribute to the cost.
Latest Comments
Nobody can collect the money to pay for health care as cheaply as the government can through a national sales tax. Nobody can deliver high quality care and medications, free to everyone who asks, without requiring insurance or co pays just free period, as cost effectively as government owned and operated hospitals serving as the public portion of a new public/or private keep what you have, reform system could. Real reform that would serve individuals with totally free care and would relieve businesses of all health care obligations financial, record keeping, everything eliminated, it would be healthy for everyone and the greatest national economic stimulus ever. A new dual public/private system that would deliver all government funded programs free through government owned and operated hospitals and clinics would save the government hundreds of billions annually from the current costs and government savings would be even larger compared to new reforms.
