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Subcommittee Examines Declining Number of Small Practice Physicians and Whether ObamaCare Accelerates the Trend
Jul 19, 2012 -
The Small Business Subcommittee on Investigations, Oversight and Regulations, under the chairmanship of Rep. Mike Coffman (R-CO), held a hearing on the reasons for a changing health care industry that is seeing more doctors leave small practices to join larger medical practices or hospitals. “It has...
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Graves: We’re Exhausting All Measures to Remove This Law, Because It’s a Barrier to Job Growth
Jul 11, 2012 -
House Small Business Committee Chairman Sam Graves (R-MO) today issued the following statement after voting for the Repeal of Obamacare Act (H.R. 6079): “The President’s health care law is making it harder for small businesses to hire. The Democrats claimed the small business health care tax credit ...
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Graves Disagrees with Supreme Court’s ObamaCare Ruling, Writes Letter to President Obama
Jun 28, 2012 -
House Small Business Committee Chairman Sam Graves (R-MO) today issued the following statement on the Supreme Court’s ruling of the constitutionality of the health care law: “The health care law is a great burden for small businesses, and our economy as a whole, at a time when we try to rebound from...
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Ellmers Requests Update From Sebellius on Health IT Safety Concerns
Jun 12, 2012 -
House Small Business Subcommittee on Healthcare and Technology Chairwoman Renee Ellmers (R-NC) today sent a letter to Kathleen Sebelius, Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS), inquiring about whether the Department has adopted the Institute of Medicine’s (IOM) recommendations for improving th...
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Associated Press: Obama's Health Care Aid to Small Firms Disappoints
May 30, 2012 -
Obama's Health Care Aid to Small Firms Disappoints By Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar It seemed like a good idea at the time. But a health insurance tax credit for small businesses, part of President Barack Obama's health care law that gets strong support in public opinion polls, has turned out to be a dis...
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Graves, Snowe Request GAO Study on Small Business Health Care Tax Credit, Report Proves Ineffectiveness
May 21, 2012 -
House Small Business Committee Chairman Sam Graves (R-MO) and Senate Small Business and Entrepreneurship Committee Ranking Member Olympia J. Snowe (R-ME) today issued the following statement on a GAO report they requested, which shows the ineffectiveness of the health care tax credit for small busin...
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What Small Businesses Are Saying on the Second Birthday of ObamaCare
Mar 23, 2012 -
Don’t expect any champagne corks to be popped anytime soon. American small business owners have been loud and clear about their displeasure with the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) and the onslaught of employer mandates and taxes associated with it. Our Committee has held three he...
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Chairman Graves in Politico: What Small-Business Owners Want to Hear in State of the Union Speech
Jan 23, 2012 -
What Small-Business Owners Want to Hear in State of the Union Speech By Chairman Sam Graves January 23, 2012 What do small-business owners want from the government? The short answer: Move out of the way. Eight out of 10 small-business owners say they want the government to stay out of the way inste...
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Small Businesses: American Economy Headed In The Wrong Direction
Jan 18, 2012 -
Small Businesses: American Economy Headed In The Wrong Direction WASHINGTON— In the U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s latest Small Business Outlook Survey, only 10% say the U.S. economy is headed in the right direction. The quarterly surveys are designed to track the small business community’s outlook on t...
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Coffman: PPACA’s Medical Loss Ratio is Bad Policy and Bad for Small Business
Dec 15, 2011 -
WASHINGTON, D.C.— House Small Business Investigations, Oversight and Regulations Subcommittee Chairman Mike Coffman (R-CO) today held a subcommittee hearing to examine new Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act’s (PPACA) Medical Loss Ratio (MLR) and its effect on job creation. Some have argued t...
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