Are rising health care costs hurting business?
• American businesses are forced to choose between providing health benefits or jobs. The health care system in our country is broken and needs real reform. • Nearly half of small businesses no longer provide health insurance, creating a “race to the bottom” for workers? benefits. • The real answer is not incremental reform but real reform that provides small businesses with the same options as large businesses, addresses the cost problems and makes coverage affordable for all workers. II. Fixing the Broken Health Care System 5. Should the system be completely overhauled or should we build on the existing broken system? • We propose bold goals that can be achieved through practical solutions. Our current insurance options, while far from perfect, work for over 80 percent of Americans. We should build on and improve them, not overhaul them, to provide affordable coverage for all Americans. • Four bedrock principles should provide guidance for reforming the system: • Providing affordable
