San Antonio Health Insurance Concerns
According to the article “Health care: Dose of Uncertainty” by William Pack on mysanantonio.com, small business owners in San Antonio are uneasy about the possible shift of the health care system. There is an angry attitude from small business owners towards the possibility of health care reform.
For the past years, small business owners have been demanding health insurance changes to decrease costs and help them remain competitive against larger competitors. San Antonio health insurance may end up being more expensive with more mandates and fewer benefits with reform and hurt small business owners. But government officials believe that the $1.1 trillion health care plan will bring health insurance costs under control for smaller businesses.
The bill produced by the House claims that they will reduce the number of uninsured people by 34 million over the next 10 years and would end the exclusion of people with pre-existing conditions as well as the dropping of ill individuals. And mandates are designed to expand the risk pool so costs will drop. It is still to be determined if fears are warranted, but small business owners who cannot afford to offer individual health insurance now are not confident.
