Posts Tagged ‘nonprofits’
Tuesday, December 1, 2009
Health Reform and Nonprofits
By Claudia Damon
Director of Advocacy, NH Center for Nonprofits
Two of the truths in the current healthcare reform debate are that health reform matters to nonprofits and nonprofits matter in planning health reform.
Nearly 8,000 NH nonprofits employ nearly 14% of the NH workforce. Nationally there are 13.5 million nonprofit employees. They all have a stake in health care reform as their employers face one of the biggest challenges faced by all small businesses–paying for employee health care coverage in a world of skyrocketing costs.
Nonprofits play a vital role in the community and in the economy, even more so these days of increasing needs and diminishing resources. And often the services nonprofits provide and the infrastructure required to offer those services are competing for dollars with health insurance costs.
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