Bitter gourd is an important winter-cultivated vegetable in Hainan (
SBHP and SONBSH, 2014).
The Health Insurance Marketplace Modernization & Affordability Act ($1955) would allow small businesses to band together to create small business health plans (
SBHPs).
SBHP legislation would allow bona fide trade and professional associations to independently pool their members, gaining bargaining power that the government, big business and unions currently enjoy when negotiating with insurers for health care prices.
It is a testament to the education efforts of the
SBHP Coalition and the members of the IFA that the legislation moved as far as it did this year.
For example, the "Connector," a tool to give individuals access to the same buying power as large employers, is analogous to the role that national associations will play in the
SBHP bill.
In addition to
SBHP legislation, what bills of interest to small business will you be working on in that committee?