Tomorrow President Obama will hold his health care summit with House and Senate leaders from both parties. Earlier in today's show, we spoke with two lawmakers from the House, who are also doctors, Rep. Jim McDermott, a Democrat from Washington State and Rep. Michael Burgess, a Republican from Texas. Now we bring the conversation full circle, from the lawmakers in Washington back to the public that they serve.
As part of our week-long series of health care roundtables, we’re talking with small business owners about how they want to see reform take shape. Small businesses employ about half of all American workers but only 62 percent of these businesses provide heath insurance. We speak to John Costin, who lives in Kennebunk, Maine and owns Veneer Services Unlimited; Dan Sherry from Barrington, Illinois, who runs two small businesses with his wife; and ReShonda Young from Waterloo, Iowa, who runs the family business, 'Alpha Express.'