Small Business Internet Guide-SBOguide

Since its inception, SBOguide.com has been dedicated to helping the owners of small business become more successful by using the power of the Internet. One thing we haven't been able to do, is offer any advice, other than to "shop around" when it comes to health insurance for your small business.

As anyone in small buinsess can attest, especially if you have less than ten or so employees, it's that finding acceptable insurance at a price your business can afford is truly difficult. In fact, lack of affordable health care options cripples small business and creates an undue burden on the ability of small business to provide reasonable health care benefits to its workforce. Regardless if how you weigh in on this issue, the current system can not be sustained. As health insurance costs continue to rise, eventually no one but the very wealthy will be able to afford it.

Health vare misinformation seems to be the name of the game. Powerful forces are at play to continue the status quo. But any thinking person knows the status quo isn't going to work for very many in the long term. Once again, special interest groups, driven by short term thinking, and this quarter's executive bonuses seem to be having a major impact on the current stalemate.

Although President Barrack Obama is leading the charge to finally provide deserving Americans working in small businesses with much needed health care reform, his efforts are being seriously undermined by front groups for the very organizations that fear a public option would endanger the insurance industry's record profits (which are up 424% in the last seven years).

Rachel Maddow interviews Wendell Potter (a former insurance industry insider turned whistle blower) on the current situation and how the industry's peddling of mis-information is threatening to kill the efforts to reform.