This report from the Center for Economic and Policy Research provide some evidence that all the howling about how health care reform is damaging to small business is pretty unfounded. It turns out that compared to the rest of the world, the United States is actually terrible at promoting small business over and above big, conglomerate business, and a plausible reason for that is the current health care system. The costs of coverage represent a gigantic barrier to entry, ultimately stifling entrepreneurship.
Like I said, support it or don't support it - but the idea that the status quo is based on a greater friendliness to free market principles and consumer satisfaction just doesn't hold up.
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