Who Benefits from Current Health Care System? Not Mike Ross' People

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Friday July 31, 2009 · 12:48 PM PDT

2009/07/31 · 12:48

Blue Dog Mike Ross benefits a great deal from the current state of health care in this country. But what about the people who he's supposed to represent? According to a new report from the Main Street Alliance, the people in Ross' state of Arkansas aren't benefitting very much from the way things are.

More after the jump. (Crossposted at FDL Action/Campaign Silo.)

From the Main Street Alliance report, we find out the following:

The data presented in this report were gathered through a survey of 180 Arkansas small business owners. Surveys were collected through face to face interviews with business owners in Pine Bluff, Hot Springs, Malvern, Monticello, Stuttgart, Dumas and Little Rock. The results indicate that Arkansas small business owners:

• Are struggling to keep up with the rising costs of health care and need meaningful health reform so they can contribute to economic recovery;

• Support approaches to reform that include more public oversight of insurers and a choice between private insurance and a public health insurance plan;

• Are willing to contribute toward health coverage for their employees, but can’t do it without a system of shared responsibility where the costs are shared; and

• Want government to play a stronger role in making health care work for businesses and employees.

Furthermore, despite the massive amounts of money being dumped into media and Congressional manipulation by the insurance and health-care industries, they are actually losing the debate here. Polls show that Americans trust Obama on this issue more than they do Republicans, who are known to be opposed to any sort of health care reform (unless it's fake reform that makes their lobbyist friends richer). Granted, you'd never know it from most media coverage, which is ridiculously slanted against meaningful reform, but that's the way it is.

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