The Business Perspective
Nancy Breymeier
President, Metro Independent Business Alliance; Strategic Financial Group
John Kolstad
Metro Independent Business Alliance; Mill City Music
The United States is the richest nation in the world; we spend
twice as much as other developed countries on health care.
Our system is in crisis. With over 47 million people uninsured,
the inflationary costs of health care rise steeply every year.
Starbucks pays more for health care than it does for coffee
beans.
In Minnesota, an estimated 500,000 small businesses helped
create 26% more jobs last year. How do we keep small business
healthy? How do they level the playing field for better
access to health care? What about big business? How do the
insured pay to provide health care to the uninsured? Does an
employer-based health care system work? Does health care
reform prevent job lock? Job loss? If so, how will businesses
be taxed with current health care models under consideration?
Physicians for a National Health Program-Minnesota and St.
Catherine University continue their seven-part series on health
care, investigating different forms of inequality and access.
Health care is a right, not a privilege; it is an issue of justice
when necessary care is unavailable or denied. This series is
produced by Queenan Productions.
All events are free and open to the public.
Events in this series
Rural Communities and Access: August 26, 2009
Racial Disparities in Care: September 16, 2009
Immigrant Perspective: October 14, 2009
International Perspectives and Solutions: Nov. 18
Economics of Health Care and Solutions: December 9
