“Small businesses pay 18 percent more than big businesses for health care, the same health care, just because they're small and they have too small a pool of risk.”
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We see tremendous excitement from small-business people about the administration and about the attention and commitment that the president has to do things that really make a difference. I think they recognize that health care is one of those. I think they recognize that what we've been doing in the Recovery Act with our loan programs has mattered.
Health care is the No. 1 concern of small businesses and the status quo is untenable.
This is not a zero-sum game. We know that if we provide access and education, particularly where there are gaps in the market, we will create more jobs, we will create more growth, and we will create more activity in the U.S. market, which will be good for our economy.
Japan actually is an aging population, and so as the population has aged, they have had a lot more problems with health.