Wednesday, June 15, 2011

Business concerns surface as health care reform moves ahead - Jacksonville Business Journal:

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President Barack Obama has mobilizedthe grass-root s supporters who helped elect him to lobby for his vision of healthg care reform, which includes offering Americans a government-ruhn health plan as an alternative to private insurance. A coalition of labo r unions and progressive organizations plansx tospend $82 milliojn on organizing efforts, advertising, research and lobbyinh to support the Obama plan. Business groups, mostly are working behind the scenex to shapethe legislation. Although they have serious concernas about some of the proposals including the public plan option and a mandate for employersz to provide insurance few are trying to block healtb care reform atthis point.
The cost of healtn insurance has become so burdensome that somethinvg needs tobe done, they agree. “Nobody support the status quo,” said James Gelfand, the ’w senior manager of health policy. “We absolutely have to have

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