In this Monday, March 6, 2017, photo, massage therapist and business consultant Rachel Beider poses for a photo at her salon Massage Greenpoint, one of two she owns, with the other being Massage Williamsburg salon, in the Brooklyn borough of New York. Beider said she has grown her client base, as many people have been seeking stress relief since the elections.
Category: Small Business
She voted for Trump, now she fears losing her health care
Kathy Watson was anxious about her health coverage even before she woke up gasping for breath one day and drove herself to the emergency room with a flare-up in her heart condition.
Flu season slams small businesses
… expected to last into the spring, Insperity’s Marcum advises business owners to be proactive to protect staffers’ health as well as company operations. Employees should be encouraged to work at home if they’re not feeling well, and to get flu shots …
Slammed by the flu, U.S. businesses scramble to get work done
… seven, gets an influenza vaccine injection from nurse Maya Kahn-Woods during a flu shot clinic at Dorchester House, a health care clinic in Boston, Jan. 12, 2013. REUTERS/Brian Snyder NEW YORK (AP) – The flu season has slammed many small businesses, …
Commentary: Doctors writing prescription to improve U.S. health care
Health care in America has been sick for decades, but the acuity of the illness has progressed rapidly in recently years. Sadly, the Affordable Care Act doubled down on the failing system and has put families at a breaking point.
Cheers! Brewery named Business of the Year
Kannah Creek Brewing Co. owner Jim Jeffryes celebrates Friday after accepting the Grand Junction Area Chamber of Commerce award for Business of the Year.
Small-business owners worried ACA repeal will cripple them
MICHAEL J. MULLEN / STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER Arianne Scheller-Strauch, Ph.D., holds her two-year-old son, Stephen, with Corey Strauch in the waiting room of her counseling office in South Scranton. The couple has concerns about health care costs as prices rise and the Affordable Care Act is changing.
50 Small Businesses to Start in Your Backyard
For entrepreneurs who want to start a business close to home and maybe spend some time outside too, a backyard business might be the right choice for you. It might sound like a strange concept, but there are actually plenty of businesses that you could potentially run right from your very own yard.
Putting patients back in control of healthcare
… or Obamacare, this experiment has hurt far more people than it has helped. Out-of-pocket costs are skyrocketing while health care choice, competition, and access are all diminishing rapidly as Obamacare’s health insurance marketplaces near collapse. …
IsoPlexis Awarded Nih Sbir Grant to Develop Cellular Analysis Platform…
Alzheimer’s and other neurodegenerative diseases have tremendous unmet therapeutic and diagnostic need, and we are excited to be in a position to address these challenges with our platform. IsoPlexis Corporation , a venture-capital funded life sciences company developing an innovative cellular response analysis platform to measure the proteomic function of individual cells in patients, today announced it was recently awarded a competitive Phase I Small Business Innovation Research grant from the National Institute on Aging of the National Institutes of Health to develop a system to analyze trafficking leukocytes’ highly multiplexed proteomic responses in patients with Alzheimer’s disease.
Tax breaks, health care options on tap for 2017
Each year, business owners can count on changes in tax law and other rules. For 2017, small businesses are getting a bigger deduction for equipment purchases, and those that aren’t required to provide health insurance will have an option to help staffers pay for coverage.
An Open Letter to the 115th Congress
… It is our hope that there is wide bipartisan support for getting things done when it comes to providing affordable health care access, regulatory evaluation relief and reforming our tax code. Having a robust and dynamic health care insurance system …
Business | Smart Benefits: Cures Act Remedies A Small Business Condition
The 21st Century Cures Act, just signed into law by President Obama, is a broad health bill but tucked in it is a section that benefits small businesses by allowing them to use HRAs to reimburse employees who buy their own insurance. Starting January 1, an employer with fewer than 50 full-time employees can offer stand-alone HRAs and fund them by reimbursing employees for their premiums used to purchase individual health insurance.