Small Business and Health Care Reform

Here are four statistics that make a tremendous case for the need for comprehensive, cost-cutting health care reform:

* 28 million American small-business owners, their employees and their dependents are uninsured.
* Insurance premiums have jumped 129 percent since 2000.
* Small businesses pay an average of 18 percent more than big businesses for the same amount of coverage.
* Small businesses represent 99.7 percent of all employers.

Source: Milwaukee Business Times