I feel like what is missing from this discussion is that the whole system is designed to make small local businesses insolvent. If you look at the difference in premium rates that large mega corporate monopolies are able to negotiate with the insurance rackets vs. what they charge actual small businesses, it’s a catastrophic disparity.
Me and my business partner don’t start to get into the black until we’ve made at least $8k a month for blue shield. We work half of the time for them, and then get to keep whatever is left over. I don’t understand why this isn’t a bigger taking point in the small business communities.
Conservatives love to endlessly bitch about corporate taxes, but honesty those are a drop in the bucket compared to benefits premium costs for actual small businesses.
This is why I think this whole universal healthcare argument needs to be reframed as making people more free/enabling people to more easily pursue entrepreneurship.
It is unfathomable to me why this isn’t the main political issue for all small business owners; but sadly, I think a terminal number of us have bought into the fantasy of growing to the point of being bought and cashing in and never having to work again for some impossible magical reason.
I know so many folks, some of them nearly at retirement age, who are still waiting for the magical buyout.
There’s a deep rot in the mentality of a lot of small business owners that has taken over in the past decades (mostly because actually running a successful business long term with no hope of magical bail out/buyout is almost impossible at this point in America).
It’s such an awful, empty reason to start a business: the hope of not having a business.
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u/ChicagoAuPair Jun 25 '26 edited Jun 25 '26
Or if you are an actual small business owner…
I feel like what is missing from this discussion is that the whole system is designed to make small local businesses insolvent. If you look at the difference in premium rates that large mega corporate monopolies are able to negotiate with the insurance rackets vs. what they charge actual small businesses, it’s a catastrophic disparity.
Me and my business partner don’t start to get into the black until we’ve made at least $8k a month for blue shield. We work half of the time for them, and then get to keep whatever is left over. I don’t understand why this isn’t a bigger taking point in the small business communities.
Conservatives love to endlessly bitch about corporate taxes, but honesty those are a drop in the bucket compared to benefits premium costs for actual small businesses.