# Are small businesses the key to Universal Health Coverage?

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**Created:** [November 20, 2007, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-small-businesses-the-key-to-universal-health-coverage/427222 "2007-11-20T19:42:29Z")\
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**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\
**Post date:** [November 20, 2007, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-small-businesses-the-key-to-universal-health-coverage/427222/1 "2007-11-20T19:42:29Z")

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At work, we get the magazine “Fortune Small Business” and the October issue said:

> [@Fortune Small Business](#):
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> We asked entrepreneurs to pick the two most significant issues that they want the next President to tackle. A plurality (47%) placed health-insurance reform in first or second place, up from 42% in 2004.

That actually doesn’t seem that big of a jump, but does this foretell anything about how small business owners will be voting this year, and if businesses in general start lining up behind UHC is it a done deal?