“something that can hopefully be worked out to small business owners’ satisfaction”

The little guys are going to get screwed and you know it. Taxing small companies that dont offer insurance up to 8% will be an incredibly large hit. Many jobs will be lost due to this.

“if Congress adopts the House of Representatives’ idea of largely paying for the program with a surtax on wealthy Americans.”

Anyone with an economic bone in their body knows that if you tax an employer (AKA wealthy Americans) that tax will ultimately fall upon the little guy. It may come in the form lost jobs or reduced wages but the hammer will fall.

Just these two items will insure a jobless recovery. These silly ideas squeeze are nothing more than a shell game that rearranges how and where costs are extracted. The people who end up flipping the bill will always be the same. It will be paid by the little guys. Obama has even came out and said there is no free lunch to his offer of free health care.