I was talking to a friend of mine for the first time in a couple of years yesterday. We used to work together and engage in lively discussions on the topics of the day.
My friend now finds himself involved in a small business. We talked of the differences between our old existence at a major corporation and how we thought about employee benefits versus his current thinking as a buyer of those services (and not simply as a consumer of whatever the HR department already purchased) and someone charged with watching every corporate penny.
The subject turned to health care.
My friend talked of an “almost universal hatred of Obama and the health care law” within the small business community that he knows. “The cost to hire new employees has gone through the roof and on top of that is all the uncertainty associated with health care.”
“Uncertainty?” I asked. “There’s no uncertainty. The health care law has been enacted and is in effect. The only ‘uncertainty’ about the law is from Republicans talking about undoing it and repealing it,” I told him.
“Oh,” he said. “I guess you’re right. I hadn’t thought of it that way.”
Well maybe you should from now on and stop complaining about problems that don’t exist, I did not add.
“It was good talking to you,” I said. “I’ve missed our little chats.” And my chance to set you straight on what’s really happening.
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