Small Businesses Access to Health Insurance: Lessons from Nebraska? : Hearing Before the Committee on Small Business, House of Representatives, One Hundred Ninth Congress, First Session, Washington, DC, June 6, 2005 |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
affordable health American Hospital Association association health plans benefits Business Health Plans COMMITTEE ON SMALL Congressman Fortenberry cost of health cost of providing cost shifting Debi Durham defensive medicine driving going Green growing number HAY COMPANY health care costs health care insurance health insurance costs health insurance coverage health maintenance organization health savings account healthcare HIPAA HomeServices of Nebraska increasing health insurance companies insurance premium issue Janssen Jeff Fortenberry labor LANIK larger pools Lee Terry Lincoln malpractice MANZULLO Medicare Medicare reimbursement MILLER Moline options Oxbow Pet Products participants patients percent pet food pharmaceutical prescription drugs President problem providing health coverage purchasing rates real estate agents real estate brokerage Realtors represent rising cost Robert Moline salaried employees simple IRA Sioux City Siouxland Chamber Small Business Committee Small Business Health small business owners small company South Sioux City spouses surance TERRY testimony Thank tri-state uninsured
Popular passages
Page 7 - PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIP; Cancer continues to be one of the most complex, unsolved health mysteries of our time. While many in-roads have been made in cancer research and new treatment applications, the facts and figures tell us that many preventable causes of cancer remain to be identified. In a recent study published by the Journal of the American Medical Association, a white male of the baby-boom generation has about twice the risk of developing cancer as his grandfather, and a white woman of...
Page 17 - The other thing that I would like to say is that we have never had a hearing with so many people attending either in Washington or any field hearing throughout the country.
Page 10 - ... revetments, and channel improvement for prevention of bank erosion. Status (Jan. 1, 1960) JUSTIFICATION The project will protect an area of 55,884 acres from bank erosion by the Missouri River, including agricultural land, lake resorts at McCook Lake and Crystal Lake, industrial areas and the municipalities of Sioux City, Iowa, South Sioux City, Nebraska, and North Sioux City, South Dakota. Erosion control benefits estimated at $4,472,000 have accumulated on the work already in place since start...
Page 23 - I look forward to the testimony of all the witnesses and I yield to the gentleman from Wisconsin, Mr.
Page 24 - ... have learned, the rising cost of providing health coverage for employees is a growing obstacle for small business owners, or those who wish to join the ranks. It is not surprising that only 63 percent of smaller companies can even afford to offer health insurance, and this is a primary reason why three out of five uninsured persons in our Nation are small business owners, their employees and their families. Recently the Small Business Committee held a field hearing in my district, and during...
Page 24 - As we have learned, the rising cost of providing health coverage for employees is a growing obstacle for small business owners, or those who might wish to join their ranks.
Page 33 - In a study published by the Journal of the American Medical Association, 93% of the 824 physician respondents reported using some form of defensive medicine.
Page 2 - ... coverage. How can we count the loss of new ideas and new productivity because someone makes an undesired economic decision based solely on health insurance coverage?
Page 22 - Of the 43 million Americans with no health insurance, 60 percent are small entrepreneurs, their families and their employees. Affordability is always the major concern for small employers and the self-employed.
Page 29 - I appreciate the opportunity to testify before this committee on the question of why more small businesses do not provide health coverage for employees.