From Cal State Fullerton
With all the red-hot debate going on in Washington about what Americans want from Congress and the Obama Administration on health care and health insurance reform, a researcher in Southern California has broken that topic down from a small business point of view and has some answers about what's crucial to hundreds of folks he has surveyed while studying the topic. He created a hot list of 13 issues and services; he interviewed more than 360 small business employers (those with 100 or fewer workers) and talked with a separate pool of 500 employees of small businesses. For small business employers what mattered most? Their maximum out-of-pocket costs and the company's annual health care cost deduction -- in other words, what does the coverage cost? For employees at small businesses, two things topped their concerns list: the cost of their monthly premiums and the cost of their co-payments.
Small businesses focused on cost of providing health coverage to employees
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