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| nfib health insurance: NFIB National Health Insurance Report for Small Business , 1978 |
| nfib health insurance: Expanding Affordable Health Care Coverage United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and the Workforce. Subcommittee on Employer-Employee Relations, 1999 |
| nfib health insurance: Payroll Taxes, Health Insurance, and SBA Budget Proposals United States. Congress. House. Committee on Small Business, 1991 |
| nfib health insurance: Health Insurance Options United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means. Subcommittee on Health, 1992 |
| nfib health insurance: Catastrophic Health Insurance and Medical Assistance Reform United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Finance, 1979 |
| nfib health insurance: Small Market Health Care Reform United States. Congress. House. Committee on Small Business, 1992 |
| nfib health insurance: Health Care Costs and Lack of Access to Health Insurance United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Finance, 1991 |
| nfib health insurance: President's Proposals on Health Care Reform and the Fiscal Year 1993 Health and Human Services Budget United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means, 1992 |
| nfib health insurance: Oversight Hearing on ERISA and State Flexibility United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor. Subcommittee on Labor-Management Relations, 1995 |
| nfib health insurance: Full Committee Hearing on Health Care Reform United States. Congress. House. Committee on Small Business, 2009 |
| nfib health insurance: Health Insurance in the Small Group Market United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means. Subcommittee on Health, 1990 |
| nfib health insurance: Permanent Extension of Certain Expiring Tax Provisions United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means, 1992 |
| nfib health insurance: Empowering Health Care Consumers Through Tax Reform Grace-Marie Arnett, 1999 Because of our tax system, most Americans have the wrong kind of insurance, and some Americans cannot afford any insurance. This book shows how tax reform can lead to more appropriate and more affordable health insurance. It is worth careful reading by our policy makers and by anyone concerned with health care in America. Prof. Martin Feldstein |
| nfib health insurance: Inside the Crystal Ball Maury Harris, 2014-12-12 A practical guide to understanding economic forecasts In Inside the Crystal Ball: How to Make and Use Forecasts, UBS Chief U.S. Economist Maury Harris helps readers improve their own forecasting abilities by examining the elements and processes that characterize successful and failed forecasts. The book: Provides insights from Maury Harris, named among Bloomberg's 50 Most Influential People in Global Finance. Demonstrates best practices in the assembly and evaluation of forecasts. Harris walks readers through the real-life steps he and other successful forecasters take in preparing their projections. These valuable procedures can help forecast users evaluate forecasts and forecasters as inputs for making their own specific business and investment decisions. Emphasizes the critical role of judgment in improving projections derived from purely statistical methodologies. Harris explores the prerequisites for sound forecasting judgment—a good sense of history and an understanding of contemporary theoretical frameworks—in readable and illuminating detail. Addresses everyday forecasting issues, including the credibility of government statistics and analyses, fickle consumers, and volatile business spirits. Harris also offers procedural guidelines for special circumstances, such as natural disasters, terrorist threats, gyrating oil and stock prices, and international economic crises. Evaluates major contemporary forecasting issues—including the now commonplace hypothesis of sustained economic sluggishness, possible inflation outcomes in an environment of falling unemployment, and projecting interest rates when central banks implement unprecedented low interest rate and quantitative easing (QE) policies. Brings to life Harris's own experiences and those of other leading economists in his almost four-decade career as a professional economist and forecaster. Dr. Harris presents his personal recipes for long-term credibility and commercial success to anyone offering advice about the future. |
| nfib health insurance: Examining Innovative Health Insurance Options for Workers and Employers United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and the Workforce. Subcommittee on Employer-Employee Relations, 2004 |
| nfib health insurance: Better Access to Affordable Health Care United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Finance, 1992 |
| nfib health insurance: Health Insurance for the Unemployed United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means. Subcommittee on Health, 1983 |
| nfib health insurance: The small business struggle under Obamacare United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship, 2017 |
| nfib health insurance: Congressional Record United States. Congress, 1996 |
| nfib health insurance: Comprehensive Health Care Reform and Cost Containment United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Finance, 1992 |
| nfib health insurance: Developing Interests McGee Young, 2010-02-04 Organized interests are perennially under fire for distorting public policies. Critics charge that they privilege the demands of favored constituencies at the expense of the broader public interest. Yet despite the importance of interest groups in the political process, little systematic research has been conducted into the development of political identities and lobbying capacities among major advocacy organizations. How does a group come to represent a set of interests? Are the identities and policy priorities of advocacy organizations stable over time, or do they evolve? What causes such evolution to occur, and what tensions arise as a consequence? This book explores the development of interest-group politics in the United States through the defining lens of four key advocacy associations in two major and highly contested policy domains, the small business and environmental lobbies. Through close examination of the National Small Business Association, National Federation of Independent Business, Sierra Club, and National Resources Defense Council, McGee Young addresses questions of how groups come to represent particular interests, which groups succeed and which fail, and how groups shape political institutions. Young explains how political opportunities shape entrepreneurial efforts to form organizations, how formative events shape advocacy strategies and tactics, and how an interest group's identity arises from entrepreneurial opportunity seekers interacting with the broader ebb and flow of politics. He shows that received understandings of what constitutes a small business or environmental interest only gradually solidified as policy conflicts forced group leaders to stake out firm principles-such as when pivotal battles in the 1950s over Western dams intersected with a longstanding membership tradition to transform the Sierra Club, or when the NFIB struggled to balance its conservatism with its hostility toward big business, to the dismay of its political allies. Developing Interests bridges the gap between traditional interest-group research and new research in American political development. It marks the first extensive study of small business interest groups in more than 40 years, while its organizational perspective provides a fresh look at environmental politics, and it features the first organizational histories of the NFIB, the NSBA, and the NRDC. With its illuminating case studies of small business lobbies and environmental groups over time, it provides readers with new insights into both the theoretical and empirical significance of interest-group development. |
| nfib health insurance: Small business access to health care United States. Congress. House. Committee on Small Business, 2002 |
| nfib health insurance: The Health Insurance Problem United States. Congress. House. Committee on Small Business, 1987 |
| nfib health insurance: Contract with America United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means, 1995 |
| nfib health insurance: Hearings on H.R. 995, the ERISA Targeted Health Insurance Reform Act United States. Congress. House. Committee on Economic and Educational Opportunities. Subcommittee on Employer-Employee Relations, 1995 |
| nfib health insurance: Long-term Strategies for Health Care United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means, 1992 Abstract: This hearing transcript debates the current administration's degree of support for pursuing the problem of freeing the environment of lead, which is poisoning approximately 3 million American each year. |
| nfib health insurance: The small business health care crisis United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship, 2004 |
| nfib health insurance: Who Cares Christopher Howard, 2023 The first comprehensive map of the social safety net, public and private, in the United States. Societies are often judged by how they treat their most vulnerable members: the poor and near poor. In the United States, this responsibility belongs not only to governments, but also to charities, businesses, individuals, and family members. Their combined efforts generate a social safety net. In Who Cares, Christopher Howard offers the first comprehensive map of the US social safety net. He chronicles how different parts of American society talk about poverty-related needs. And he shows what Americans do to provide basic levels of income, food, housing, medical care, and daily care. Although the US social safety net is extensive, major gaps remain, particularly impacting Blacks, Hispanics, and individuals who are not employed full-time. Drawing heavily upon evidence from the years right before the Covid-19 pandemic, Howard demonstrates that these problems persist even when the economy seems healthy. Who Cares concludes with an initial assessment of how the social safety net performed during the pandemic. |
| nfib health insurance: Keeping Up with the Trend United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Small Business, 1996 |
| nfib health insurance: The Shadow Welfare State Marie Gottschalk, 2018-09-05 Why, in the recent campaigns for universal health care, did organized labor maintain its support of employer-mandated insurance? Did labor's weakened condition prevent it from endorsing national health insurance? Marie Gottschalk demonstrates here that the unions' surprising stance was a consequence of the peculiarly private nature of social policy in the United States. Her book combines a much-needed account of labor's important role in determining health care policy with a bold and incisive analysis of the American welfare state. Gottschalk stresses that, in the United States, the social welfare system is anchored in the private sector but backed by government policy. As a result, the private sector is a key political battlefield where business, labor, the state, and employees hotly contest matters such as health care. She maintains that the shadow welfare state of job-based benefits shaped the manner in which labor defined its policy interests and strategies. As evidence, Gottschalk examines the influence of the Taft-Hartley health and welfare funds, the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (E.R.I.S.A.), and experience-rated health insurance, showing how they constrained labor from supporting universal health care. Labor, Gottschalk asserts, missed an important opportunity to develop a broader progressive agenda. She challenges the movement to establish a position on health care that addresses the growing ranks of Americans without insurance, the restructuring of the U.S. economy, and the political travails of the unions themselves. |
| nfib health insurance: Public Policy Carter A. Wilson, 2016-10-29 Every American is impacted by public policy issues, yet most of us do not fully understand them. What are public policies, and why are they necessary? What types of public policies are there, and which have been most controversial? Building on the success of the popular first edition, the author uses an historical approach to answer these and many other fundamental questions, often through the lens of different strands of policy theory. He illuminates the intricate interactions of the dynamic social and political forces that result in the creation, maintenance, and reform of public policy. In an accessible and engaging writing style, Wilson effectively examines and contrasts different positions on controversial issues, provides a wide range of examples, and fills in important details. Landmark legal cases and their policy ramifications are clearly explained, and a list of websites at the close of each chapter points readers to the most up-to-date sources of information on current public policy issues. |
| nfib health insurance: Private Health Insurance Reform Legislation United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means. Subcommittee on Health, 1992 |
| nfib health insurance: Dangerous Convictions Thomas Hodge Allen, 2013-02-07 The rhetoric of the 2012 presidential campaign exposed the deeply rooted sources of political polarization in American. One side celebrated individualism and divided the public into makers and takers; the other preached better together as the path forward. Both focused their efforts on the base not the middle. In Dangerous Convictions, former Democratic Congressman Tom Allen argues that what's really wrong with Congress is the widening, hardening conflict in worldviews that leaves the two parties unable to understand how the other thinks about what people should do on their own and what we should do together. Members of Congress don't just disagree, they think the other side makes no sense. Why are conservatives preoccupied with cutting taxes, uninterested in expanding health care coverage and in denial about climate change? What will it take for Congress to recover a capacity for pragmatic compromise on these issues? Allen writes that we should treat self-reliance (the quintessential American virtue) and community (our characteristic instinct to cooperate) as essential balancing components of American culture and politics, instead of setting them at war with each other. Combining his personal insights from 12 years In Congress with recent studies of how human beings form their political and religious views, Allen explains why we must escape the grip of our competing worldviews to enable Congress to work productively on our 21st century challenges. |
| nfib health insurance: Winner-Take-All Politics Jacob S. Hacker, Paul Pierson, 2010 In this groundbreaking book on one of the world's greatest economic crises, Hacker and Pierson explain why the richest of the rich are getting richer while the rest of the world isn't. |
| nfib health insurance: Small Business Health Insurance Market United States. Congress. House. Committee on Energy and Commerce. Subcommittee on Health and the Environment, 1990 |
| nfib health insurance: Health Reform in the 21st Century United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means, 2009 |
| nfib health insurance: Implementation of the Small Business Agenda United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Small Business, 1996 |
| nfib health insurance: Full Committee Hearing on the New Hidden Tax on Small Business United States. Congress. House. Committee on Small Business, 2007 |
| nfib health insurance: The Other Campaign David B. Magleby, 2003 In the wake of the Enron and World Com debacle, campaign finance reform has once again ascended to the top of the congressional agenda. Outside money--party soft money as well as special interest dollars--continues to influence election results and affect public policy even as its sources remain obscure. In The Other Campaign, David B. Magleby and his contributors follow the money trail to show a different side of electoral politics--beyond the bandboxes and stump speeches and into the inner workings of sophisticated campaign communications and noncandidate campaigning. Focusing on 9 highly competitive races in both the House and Senate, this book shows the positive and negative effects of outside money and enlightens the debate over campaign finance reform with its extensive and original data analysis. Visit our website for sample chapters! |
| nfib health insurance: Health Care Policy and Politics A to Z Julie Rovner, 2009 This essential guide for libraries, policy makers, and anyone concerned with health care in America has now been fully updated Readers will find updated information on long term health care spending, abortion, Medicaid and Medicare, health insurance and the uninsured, the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP), and much, much more. New entries reflect important changes in recent years and include the Medicare Modernization Act, abstinence education, electronic health records, health savings accounts, Plan B, the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), and Project BioShield. |
NFIB - Small Business Association - Advocate for Owners
NFIB is the voice of small business, advocating on behalf of America’s small and independent business owners, both in Washington, D.C. and each state capital.
About NFIB - NFIB
NFIB was founded by C. Wilson Harder in 1943, whose vision was to give small and independent business a voice in governmental decision-making through advocacy. Since its early history, our …
Membership FAQs - NFIB
As an NFIB member, you can also access big savings for your small business, including discounts on personal and commercial insurance, payroll services, office equipment purchases, and more. …
Small Business Trends & Research - NFIB
The 2024 NFIB Tax Survey assessed small business owners’ biggest tax challenges, implications of potential changes to the tax code, and how tax policy impacts business operations.
Benefits of Membership - NFIB
Exclusive access to lawmakers and elected officials through NFIB’s member-only meetings and special events. Support Access to legal experts by phone or email to help you with compliance …
Policy Agenda - NFIB
Tell Congress and NFIB where you stand on issues like taxes, healthcare, labor, and regulations by visiting our active campaigns and surveys
Advocacy Center - NFIB
NFIB is the voice of small business. We’re a member-driven organization advocating for America’s small and independent business owners in Washington, D.C., and all 50 state capitals. Our …
Our History - NFIB
NFIB was founded by C. Wilson Harder in 1943, whose vision was to give small and independent business a voice in governmental decision-making through advocacy. Since its early history, …
NEW NFIB SURVEY: Small Business Optimism Increases in May
WASHINGTON, D.C. (June 10, 2025) – The NFIB Small Business Optimism Index increased by three points in May to 98.8, slightly above the 51-year average of 98. Expected business conditions …
State News - NFIB
NFIB released new radio and digital advertisements thanking Rep. Rob Bresn… Read More May 12, 2025 Pennsylvania Small Business Legislative Update Learn about the latest legislation coming …
NFIB - Small Business Association - Advocate for Owners
NFIB is the voice of small business, advocating on behalf of America’s small and independent business owners, both in Washington, D.C. and each state capital.
About NFIB - NFIB
NFIB was founded by C. Wilson Harder in 1943, whose vision was to give small and independent business a voice in governmental decision-making through advocacy. Since its early history, …
Membership FAQs - NFIB
As an NFIB member, you can also access big savings for your small business, including discounts on personal and commercial insurance, payroll services, office equipment purchases, and …
Small Business Trends & Research - NFIB
The 2024 NFIB Tax Survey assessed small business owners’ biggest tax challenges, implications of potential changes to the tax code, and how tax policy impacts business operations.
Benefits of Membership - NFIB
Exclusive access to lawmakers and elected officials through NFIB’s member-only meetings and special events. Support Access to legal experts by phone or email to help you with compliance …
Policy Agenda - NFIB
Tell Congress and NFIB where you stand on issues like taxes, healthcare, labor, and regulations by visiting our active campaigns and surveys
Advocacy Center - NFIB
NFIB is the voice of small business. We’re a member-driven organization advocating for America’s small and independent business owners in Washington, D.C., and all 50 state capitals. Our …
Our History - NFIB
NFIB was founded by C. Wilson Harder in 1943, whose vision was to give small and independent business a voice in governmental decision-making through advocacy. Since its early history, …
NEW NFIB SURVEY: Small Business Optimism Increases in May
WASHINGTON, D.C. (June 10, 2025) – The NFIB Small Business Optimism Index increased by three points in May to 98.8, slightly above the 51-year average of 98. Expected business …
State News - NFIB
NFIB released new radio and digital advertisements thanking Rep. Rob Bresn… Read More May 12, 2025 Pennsylvania Small Business Legislative Update Learn about the latest legislation …
