Women who own small shops would benefit from House plan

Insurance companies and other businesses that profit from health care are using scare tactics to muster public disfavor of proposed health care reform, writes Nancy Duff Campbell, founder and co-president of the National Women's Law Center. "The House plan would make insurance more affordable by prohibiting insurance companies from discriminating on the basis of health status or gender and by allowing small businesses to purchase coverage through a new Health Insurance Exchange," she writes.

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