Small Businesses Provide Job-Creation Engine

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Small Businesses Provide Job-Creation Engine

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Mr. POLIS. Madam Speaker, small businesses are the backbone of our country, providing the job-creation engine that we need to lift us out of this recession. And yet, today, small businesses across our country are at a disadvantage to their larger corporate competitors because of the higher costs of providing health care for their employees, because of smaller risk pools and less purchasing power.

By creating public exchanges, which this health bill proposes, as well as by preventing pricing discrimination based on preexisting conditions, we give small businesses access to low-cost options to provide health care benefits to their employees, increasing the competitiveness of American companies to help lift us out of this recession.

By helping small businesses succeed at what they do best, focusing on their businesses, on innovation, on job growth, and helping to make them more competitive by reducing the cost of their health care insurance, we can lift America out of this recession and make America's small businesses more competitive.

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