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Category: Human Resources, Healthcare, Benefits

Joan Pryde
What will the health care bill cost small businesses? Joan Pryde joins Jim Blasingame to identify some of the tax and fee elements of the health care bill as it unfolds over the next 5 years. They also discuss proposed bank regulations.
Grace-Marie Turner
Can the Obama-care be stopped? Grace-Marie Turner joins Jim Blasingame to identify some of the steps that will have to be taken and events that will have to happen if the health care bill is to be prevented from taking effect.
Grace-Marie Turner
What's in the health care bill for small businesses? Grace-Marie Turner joins Jim Blasingame to report on the impact of the health care bill on businesses in general and small business in particular.
Grace-Marie Turner
The health care reform bill was passed in a way that is unprecedented, according to Grace-Marie Turner and Jim Blasingame, who talk about the fact that proponents were prepared to do virtually anything they could to pass this bill, even without any bi-partisan support and in the face of public opposition.
Michael Saltsman
Minimum wage is not a poverty reducing policy. Michael Saltsman joins Jim Blasingame to discuss recent unemployment facts and research that shows how the current level of minimum wage has actually harmed the poor and increased unemployment.
Barbara Burke
How do you teach your organization to think of customer complaints as opportunities? Barbara Burke talks with Jim Blasingame about how to teach practices and instill attitudes that make customers want you to help them when they need it.
Gene Marks
What is keeping small businesses from hiring? Gene Marks talks with Jim Blasingame about several reasons why small businesses are delaying their plans to put workers back on payroll, including uncertainty about public policy issues, such as health care reform, and others.
Brian Moran
What will be the impact of Obama Care on small business? Brian Moran joins Jim Blasingame to talk about the so-called health care reform bill, will it work as proposed and how small businesses will deal with this new program.
Jim Blasingame
America needs health care reform, not health care politics. Jim Blasingame talks about his 12-year history of encouraging market-based health care reform, and why the politically motivated proposals are more about political control than true reform.
Bob Kustka
What will the small business workplace look like in 2020? Bob Kustka joins Jim Blasingame to offer his ideas on some of the ways the workplace will have evolved by the year 2020, including more teleworking, better management and even holograms.

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