Reply #7: Thanks for your post. I know that as a small business owner [View All]

[DURHAM D]

I will be out the back door and over to the government's front door asking to get into their program in a heart beat if I can. Right now I have cobbled together a way to insure every employee. But I can't add staff because I can not afford to pay any more in medical insurance premiums. I could pay/handle more payroll but not the benefits so I do without new employees. I could also hire more staff and ask the long time employees to pick up part of their insurance costs but I don't want to do that.

To handle my staffing problem I just work longer and longer hours. I am getting near retirement and could, in fact, go ahead and retire now. However, I keep working so my staff has health insurance. My two most loyal and long time employees are diabetic. If I shut my business down I know they will have a hard time because of their pre-existing conditions.

Note: If I find someone who is covered by their spouses or their own medical plan I would hire them in a minute. This relates to Hillary's quote that Drudge and the New York Post got wrong.