September 24, 2009

Small Business Owners Sound Off on Health Care Reform

By Brad O'Leary
In his speech to Congress two weeks ago, President Obama made a strong sell to small business owners that his health care reform plan would be blessing, not a curse, for them.  Indeed, the President directly addressed "small businesses" no fewer than nine times in his speech.  Now that small business owners have heard from the President, it's time for the President to finally listen to small business owners.The O'Leary Report recently teamed up with Zogby International to poll small business owners and officers to see what they think about various topics that are central to the health care reform debate.  The results show why President Obama zeroed-in on small businesses in his nationally televised sales pitch.  (The poll was conducted September 4-8 and surveyed 4,426 likely voters.  The margin-of-error is plus-or-minus 1.5 percentage point.  The size of the small business owner subsample 909. Readers may take the poll themselves at...(Read Full Article)