Business warily waits on health-care reform - Nashville Business Journal:

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President Barack Obama has mobilizedthe grass-roots supporterd that helped elect him to lobby for his visio of health-care reform, whic h includes offering Americans a government-run healtu plan as an alternative to privat e insurance. A coalition of labor unions and progressive organizations plans tospend $82 millioh on organizing efforts, advertising, research and lobbying to support the Obamw plan. Business groups, meanwhile, mostly are workiny behind the scenes to shapethe legislation.
Whiles they have serious concerns about some of theproposalse – including the public plan option and a mandates for employers to provide insurance few are trying to block health-care reform at this point. The cost of healtyh insurance has become so burdensome that something needs tobe done, they agree. “Nobody supportsz the status quo,” said Jamews Gelfand, the ’s senior manager of health policy.
“We absolutely have to have