In stark contrast to the trillion-dollar, massive government takeover of health care that would increase premiums for families and small businesses, Rep. John Kline (R-MN), the top Republican on the U.S. House Education and Labor Committee, this morning outlined a commonsense plan to reduce health care costs for small businesses. Kline’s remarks came during the White House’s health care summit, currently underway. Excerpts of his remarks:
“We’re looking at thousands of pages of legislation, and we believe a better approach is to go step by step to address these issues of cost …
“We believe that we ought to address that issue by allowing these small businesses to band together in the same way - that I think you, Mr. President, mentioned - that large companies do. And I mean really, the same way, so that they get all the advantages … that if they self-insure, being able to avoid the 50 state mandates, being able to lower their administrative costs because they’re not having to deal with that … and it will lower the cost of premiums for these small businesses and allow them to insure more people and to keep people they already insured on the books."
