Health Care Insurance rules will harm the franchise industry?

Did you know that more than 550,000 franchised outlets in the United States of America? It’s true. In fact, did you know that the franchising sector a third of every dollar spent by consumers of our GDP? That is also true. Did you know that the franchise industry is something like 25 million jobs in the U.S.?

But did you know that the attention of new health insurance program could cause a large number of failures of franchises in the franchise industry and a time when we expect the economy turn the corner and start their upward momentum during the expansion period ahead? It seems as if all we can in this country to harm our nation’s small businesses, and most of all franchisees are made out of small businesses. In fact, among the most successful small businesses in our country, because they have a proven business model.

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Health Reform – Fiscal History of Madness

As statesman and philosopher Edmund Burke Sir said: “Those who do not know history are doomed to repeat it.” This quote says it all when put in the perspective of the current failure of attempts to Massachusetts health reform and recent efforts to reform health care in Tennessee.

As spectacular failures go, it’s hard to do worse than Tennessee. First attempt of the Volunteer State to dramatically increase health insurance coverage, called TennCare, began promising, says Peter Suderman, associate editor of Reason Foundation.

• In 1994, the first year of operation, the system adds half a million new individuals to its wheel.

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