A woman in California helped me appreciate the burden that our rising health care costs place on small businesses. To start her dry cleaning business, Jennifer had to pay $100,000 a year to get health insurance for herself and three employees.5 Right off the bat, her small business was six figures in the hole. How many more garments does she now need to clean in order to be profitable? Jennifer’s story illustrates one of the greatest risks to our economy: health care costs are increasingly suffocating business in America.6
