Business warily awaits health care reforms - New Mexico Business Weekly:

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President Barack Obama has mobilizedthe grass-roots supporteras that helped elect him to lobby for his visiohn of health care reform, which includes offerinhg Americans a government-run health plan as an alternativre to private insurance. A coalitionh of labor unions and progressive organizations plans tospend $82 million on organizing efforts, research and lobbying to support the Obamw plan. Business groups, meanwhile, mostly are working behind the scenes to shapethe legislation. Whil they have serious concerns aboutt some of the proposals including the public plan option and a mandatse for employers to provide insurance few are trying to bloc k health care reform atthis point.
The cost of healtyh insurance has become so burdensomwe that something needs tobe done, they agree. “Nobody support s the status quo,” said James Gelfand, the ’s senioer manager of health policy. “We absolutelyh have to have reform.”