"To say that this is a penalty on small businesses just isn't so."

Before you adopt their rhetoric, remember that nearly half of the cost of the House Democrats' health plan would be paid by tight cost controls and forcing down the expense of the health care system. That's a top priority. And as for who will pay higher taxes and who won't under our plan, here are the cold facts.

Only the highest earning 1.2 percent of American households will pay a surcharge for health care reform. That leaves 98.8 percent of American households who will not pay any surcharge at all.

As for small businesses, according to the non-partisan Joint Committee on Taxation, only 4.1 percent of all small business owners will be affected by the health care surcharge. The remaining 95.9 percent of small business owners will be completely unaffected by the surcharge. Under our bill, a family making up to $350,000 in adjusted gross income (AGI) will not owe any surcharge at all...

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House and Senate leaders are under pressure from Obama to complete work on healthcare

"The price of doing nothing about healthcare is a price that every business and every family will have to pay," Obama told a rally in New Jersey for Democratic Governor Jon Corzine's re-election campaign. "That is unacceptable, that is unsustainable, and we are going to change it in 2009."

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