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Article: Availability of Health Insurance Shrinking for South Carolina Businesses.
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- Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
- Article date:
- April 21, 2002
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By C. Grant Jackson, The State, Columbia, S.C. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Apr. 21--The health insurance premium for Don Purcell's three small businesses rose 18 percent to 20 percent last year.
Purcell, who runs Spring Valley Auto Body, Express Rent-A-Car and Long Creek Equestrian Center with 23 full-time employees, is facing the biggest problem of small business today: How to provide health insurance to workers without breaking the bank.
The cost and availability of health insurance recently tied with taxes as the most important problem facing small business in a survey by the National Federation of Independent Businesses.
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