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Businesses that move quickly to hire today will get a bigger tax credit than businesses that wait until later this year. this tax cut will be particularly helpful to small business owners. many of them are on the fence right now about whether to bring in that extra worker or two, or whether they should hire anyone at all, and this jobs bill should help make that decision that much easier. by the way, i would like to note that part of what health insurance reform would do is to provide tax credits for over 4 million small businesses so they don't have to choose between hiring workers and offeri...

As you probably know, more than half of small businesses no longer provide health insurance at all to their employees. well, why is that? our premiums for our business over the last ten years tripled. this is a huge cost for our business every year to pay these health insurance premiums. well, why are our premiums so high? well, we as a small business, are in such a pool that we cannot spread these costs around. one of our employees had cardiac bypass surgery about eight years ago. well, the next year when the insurance company got these legitimate medical bills, our premiums went out the roof...

Right now about whether to wring in that ex-- bring in that extra worker or two, or whether they should hire anyone at all, and this jobs bill should help make their decision that much easier. by the way, i'd like to note that part of what health insurance reform would do is to provide tax credits for over four million small businesses so they don't have to choose between hiring workers and offering coverage. the second thing this bill does is to encourage small businesses to grow and to hire by permitting them to write off investments they make in equipment this year. these kinds of expenses ...

Someone who's been out of work at least two months. that's a tax benefit that will apply to unemployed workers hired between last month and the end of this year. so this tax cut says to employers, if you hire a worker who's unemployed, you won't have to pay payroll taxes on that worker for the rest of the year. and businesses that move quickly to hire today will get a bigger tax credit than businesses that wait until later this year. this tax cut will be particularly helpful to small business owners. many of them are on the fence right now about whether to bring in that extra worker or two. or...

Insurance over the ten-year period after the bill was enacted. so, you know, trump was making a lot of sacrifices in pursuit of this broader victory, this win. he wanted something that he could claim as a big victory in his first 100 days. unfortunately, he's not going to get it on health care. he will look now to tax reform and other issues. but, you know, that's going to be very difficult, too. >> mary agnes kerry, you have a better handle on health care policy on law than with anyone i have ever spoken. i want to show you a tweet i sent out yesterday as the president was reacting to having ...