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By blocking a national health insurance option for major medical care, Republicans also block small business formation.

I know this to be true from painful first-hand experience with Patrick.net. It is very hard to start a small business in America unless you're already rich, because Republicans have blocked every attempt at a national health insurance option.

The private health insurance cartel does not offer any reasonable plan for individuals or families that would allow you to get independent coverage for your family, to go start your own small business. They charge obscenely high rates, and are rapidly increasing those rates as well. Go try to get insurance. You'll see.

I get friends writing me because they want to quit their day jobs and start a business, but they're worried about the cost and availability family health insurance on their own, so they don't do it. And I tell them they're damn right to be worried about insurance, because of those very high and rapidly increasing rates, and the fact that private insurance companies simply refuse to insure anyone who is likely to need medical care. So the Republicans have strangled millions of potential small businesses in the crib. And that's exactly what they intended to do all along.

See, Republican congressmen always vote to make the richest corporations and billionaires richer, and screw the rest of us. Blocking small business creation by blocking a national health insurance option is a perfect example. Lack of independent health insurance forces you to be an obedient worker. And that's just how your owners like it!

We need a national health insurance option for critical care (not the small stuff) that everyone pays into, and everyone benefits from, like national defense. It should not be paid for by extra taxes or obligations on small businesses, because that would just serve the Republican goal of blocking small business formation all over again.

The Tea Party morons in the tri-corner hats are campaigning against the freedom to start a small business. They deserve what they get, but they're campaigning to screw the rest of us too.

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