Obama Says Small Businesses to Gain From Health-Care Overhaul

President Barack Obama said small businesses that are now overwhelmed by medical-insurance costs would benefit from his proposed overhaul of the U.S. health-care system.

In his weekly address on the radio and Internet, Obama said he regularly hears from small-business owners who can’t grow their companies because of rising health-care costs and entrepreneurs who can’t start new ventures because of health- insurance concerns. Full Story »

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Posted by: via Google News - Oct 3, 2009 - 11:06 AM PDT
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by Derek Hawkins - Oct. 3, 2009

Light on independent sourcing. Coverage of the debate outside Congress is helpful, but this wasn't very deep.

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by Fabrice Florin - Oct. 4, 2009

Brief report on President Obama's recent address about the health care bill, along with perspectives from the American Medical Association and republican views on this topic.

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by Philip Kreck - Oct. 3, 2009

This article reports on facts (specifically, direct or indirect quotes), and it does not attempt to extend beyond this modest objective. Importantly, the quotes do not appear to be "cherry-picked" to support a central thesis. It describes the positions of key actors in the on-going healthcare debate. Overall, it represents detailed information without biased (or unbiased) analysis. Direct, informative, simple (or, perhaps, just "to-the-point".)

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