The Obama administration also saw the passage of the Small Business Job Act, which provided additional small business tax cuts, zero capital gain taxes on important small business investments held forfiveyears or more, deduction for self-employed health insurance costs and increased access to lending for small business owners.
Though I had been blessed with consistent work, I lost my health insurancefor the first time when I found myself undergoing my first major knee surgery fiveyears ago.
Mr. Starr, who broadly supports the Obama administration's efforts to overhaul the health system, has suggested that Democrats consider a system in which anyone who doesn't get insured can sign away access to the law's subsidies, insurance exchanges for buying policies and guaranteed coverage of pre-existing medical conditions forfiveyears, rather than pay the fee.