Reform May Help Small Groups

Health care reform could save American small businesses $855 billion over the next 10 years, researchers estimate.

The study, conducted for Small Business Majority, Washington by researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, concludes that failing to reform the health care system could eliminate up to 178,000 small business jobs in the coming decade.

Assuming that some kind of reform passes Congress and is signed by the president, restructuring health care to include shared responsibility among individuals, business and government could save as many 128,000 of those jobs, according to the author of the study, Jonathan Gruber, an MIT economist.