Easing the Healthcare Burden on Small Businesses

Host: Janet Wright, MD Guest: Bob Graboyes, PhD Is your practice one of the growing number of small healthcare businesses that cannot afford to provide health insurance for its employees? It’s a startling reality for many medical employers and employees, and more broadly, for the entire small business sector, which, in some states, is the collective employer for upwards of half of the uninsured population. As Dr. Bob Graboyes, senior healthcare advisor for the National Federation of Independent Business, tells host Dr. Janet Wright, with new proposals for restructuring health care coming in droves these days, meaningful healthcare legislation would be welcome news for small businesses around the country.