24 pages. Excerpt: Against [the] backdrop of a failing system and the prospect of true reform, Small Business Majority commissioned noted economist and Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor Jonathan Gruber to apply his trusted healthcare economics microsimulation model to the small business sector -- specifically those businesses with 100 or fewer employees. Using his model, Dr. Gruber analyzed the continued impact of no reform on small business costs, jobs, wages and profits over the next ten years and contrasted that with three different reform scenarios, all based on the shared responsibility model proposed by President Obama and now being debated on Capitol Hill.

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