To
that end, I read the following bit this morning:
To
quote some of the article as it was displayed in Shelf Awareness:
On his blog, Jarek Steele, co-owner of Left Bank Books, St.
Louis, Missouri offered a "small business response to Obamacare"
noting that the indie bookstore "pays 100% of our full-time employees'
health insurance premium. I'll also let you in on another secret - by the end
of this year, my bookstore will have paid $270,550 over the past five years for
health insurance. Our group is (obviously) small; an average of 12 people are
enrolled. Each bookseller's premium averages out to about $415 per month. We each
have a $5,000 deductible.
"The message being blasted from the rooftops of
opponents of Obamacare this week is that those figures I just gave you are
precisely why Obamacare is unfair, that it will put a burden on individuals and
small businesses like mine and force us to increase what we spend on
healthcare. They don't want you to know that many small businesses like mine
actually think that having health insurance is an important aspect of having a
functional, happier, healthier, more productive employee. This small business
in the reddest of all red states - count
me in."
As for the daily news, every time I hear mention of healthcare on CNN or MSNBC the television goes mute or the channel is quickly changed. I'm simply disgusted by our lawmakers and their inability to do an honest day's work, and I'm tired of hearing about it.
