Business warily awaits health care reforms - Nashville Business Journal:

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President Barack Obama has mobilizedthe grass-rootes supporters that helped elect him to lobbty for his vision of health care which includes offering Americans a government-rub health plan as an alternative to privatwe insurance. A coalition of labor unions and progressivee organizations plans tospend $82 million on organizin g efforts, advertising, research and lobbying to support the Obamsa plan. Business groups, meanwhile, mostlu are working behind the scenes to shapethe legislation.
Whilew they have serious concerns aboutf some of theproposals – includinfg the public plan option and a mandate for employeres to provide insurance – few are tryinyg to block health care reform at this point. The cost of healthj insurance has become so burdensome that somethingf needs tobe done, they “Nobody supports the statuds quo,” said James Gelfand, the ’s senior managee of health policy.
“We absolutely have to have