Local business leader goes to DC to discuss healthcare reform with lawmakers

Tyeis Baker-Baumann of Rebsco, Inc. in Greenville is scheduled to attend meetings in Washington, D.C. today (5/20) with House Minority Leader John Boehner to discuss small business opposition to the recently passed Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. Baker-Baumann will attend the meetings at the request of the National Federation of Independent Business, the state’s leading small business association, which recently joined a lawsuit alongside 20 states challenging the constitutionality of the new law.

“We are concerned that this law will only make it more difficult for the millions of small businesses, like mine, that currently are struggling to provide health insurance for their employees in the face of annual unsustainable premium increases. Every report I’ve seen says that this law will cause an increase in costs. And the highly touted tax credit is so complex that determining whether or not your business qualifies for some portion of the credit will probably require hiring outside expertise that will cost more money. That is precisely the opposite of what small businesses like mine need. What we need from Washington is for them to let us do what we do best: run and try to grow our business. I don’t need more taxes, more fines, new rules, increased regulations, more mandates, and more paperwork keeping me from doing what I need to do for my business and my employees,” said Baker-Baumann. “I am looking forward to meeting with our lawmakers to explain why I believe this new law will devastate businesses in Ohio like Rebsco.”

Baker-Baumann is a member of the NFIB/Ohio Leadership Council and is the former chair of NFIB’s Western Ohio Area Action Council, a group of NFIB member business owners who meet several times a year to discuss policy issues that impact Ohio ’s small businesses.