Reply #15: Never saw a Republican policy yet that benefitted small business [View All]

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My husband has been in business for himself since 1982 and I have never seen one proposal from a Republican that helped us even a little bit. We were covering our health insurance through my job until I became unable to work about 2 years ago. We paid for COBRA for as long as we could but it was dreadfully expensive. Employer based health insurance feels like enslavement to me. How many of us can change to a job we would like more or be more productive at without worrying about the medical plan? How many of us can strike out on our own to start a small business due to the need to hold on to the medical benefit plans? How many lives are spent in dead end jobs and how much innovation has been stifled due to the need to hold on to our employer based health insurance? How many raises are squelched because your employers' health premiums went up again this year? Our current system is not benefiting anyone except the medical industrial complex.