would affect small business. 2701 doesn t apply to large businesses. then the other two are things that had been in place before for the health insurance portability act. so they narrowed it down. they re looking at 2701 and how it affects small businesses employers and employees. what they found is they found that 65% of small business employers will see higher premiums and the 11 million people are saying they factored in the account if employers have higher premiums they re going to has that off to employees. here s where i had a question. who is to say they would pass it on? a lot of business s costs have gone up, but we haven t seen it reflected in higher prices. businesses have a tough time these days passing along increases. why was it a given in this study those extra costs would be passed along to you as a health
inasmuch as i could, strong efforts to allow competition and more private decisions being made between the health care recipient and their doctor and insurance company and that is what i engaged in, and that is a difference let me ask you about mitt romney, he said well, a federal plan, a one size fits all plan, it wasn t that, it was a state plan. does that make a difference or is the idea of government telling people you have to buy insurance, is that still the wrong principle, whether the federal or state level? i don t like local, state or federal levels of government mandating anything, in our lives. our families, in our businesses, unless it comes to saving lives. so, i do understand where mitt romney is going with that. obviously, he s a supporter of the tenth amendment and that is what is missing in this president presents administration, is any respect for the tenths amendment, states rights and we need to get back to that. on the local level, for