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Rell vetoes Sustinet legislation (HB 6600) and the CT Health Partnership bill (HB 6582).

The question is, was she right or was she wrong for the veto of both? My conclusion is, wrong.

The cost of doing business in Connecticut includes health care. Independent Contractors and Small Business Owners are the core in helping Connecticut rise above the current recession.

We hear reports of consumers purchasing clothing items at consignment stores to save money. Believe this or not, consignment store owners are small businesses. Every day homes are being foreclosed on where Realtors are the ones taking on the task to sell these homes. Realtors are Independent Contractors.

These are two examples of what our core is to Connecticut. The core is small businesses and independent contractors that need affordable health care coverage to keep their costs of doing business at an affordable rate, yet be able to offer an affordable medical plan to employees (which will decrease the unemployment rate) as well as having an affordable health care plan to cover the medical expenses of their families as well.

Every business owner, independent contractor, and every citizen who works for a small business, people who do not qualify or fit the age brackets for plans like AARP, Medicare, Huskies A or B, are also citizens that pay the taxes, liability insurance, fees, rental space expenses, just to keep a business running to provide for food for their families with clothes on their backs and a roof over their head.

These businesses are needed for all citizens in CT to be able to continue to purchase merchandise or have services rendered. Health Care Coverage at an affordable rate is not a choice; it is a necessity now more than ever.

Through Gov. Rell's vetoes, small business owners and independent contractors, the core of doing business in Connecticut, will soon be the core that once was. Before you know it, the core will leave.

Cutting costs is not the factor in her reason for these vetoes. To add the future cost for the State in regards to these bills is based on an estimated number. Through her vetoes she just increased the cost of doing business in CT all the more. Simple logic is a wedge that just came inbetween operating a business and the need for affordable health care.

My fear is that the small business owners and Independent Contractors will move out of the State of Connecticut because Health Care is needed. Affordable health care that is, for the small business owners and independent contractors that are the core for Connecticut to rise above the economical challenge right now.

Gov. Rell, in my opinion, is not seeing the relationship between the core and affordable health care plans in Connecticut. Where the core is a valuable asset to Connecticut's economy, without affordable health care plans, the core will eventually have to seek more inexpensive ways, possibly close or leave the state, to do business at an affordable capacity.

It is urged, if you are a small business owner and/or independent contractor that understands the need for affordable health care coverage, a coverage plan already in place, write to your local Senator, Representative, Congressman. Understand what these two house bills mentioned above are, understand how it will help your costs of doing business by having an affordable health care plan in Connecticut.

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