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As the politically motivated lawsuit against the Affordable Care Act blanketed news headlines recently, a group calling itself “the voice of small business” enjoyed a moment in the media spotlight. The National Federation of Independent Business, or NFIB, continues to draw coverage as a “leading small business lobby group” opposing the health care law. I have only one problem with that: I’m a small business owner, and NFIB doesn’t speak for me.
 
As a cabinet maker with 10 employees, I’ve been just about breaking the bank for years to pay 85 percent of my employees’ individual health insurance costs. I know a thing or two about the broken health care system, and I find little to support in the NFIB’s “analysis.” Small business owners like me want to make health care reform work, not roll it back.

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