REGIONAL
REPORT
FALL 2013
A QUARTERLY BUSINESS NEWS MAGAZINE OF THE NEW PALTZ REGIONAL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
Obamacare
AND THE SMALL BUSINESS
What You Need to Know
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Healthy Mind, Healthy Body, Healthy Economy Eating locally grown food isn’t just about eating healthy veggies—it’s also part of the virtuous circle of interconnected local businesses.
By Tod Westlake
hether you love it, hate it, or feel ambivalent about it, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act looks like it’s here to stay. The law, sometimes referred to as “Obamacare,” and which was signed by President Obama in March, 2010, has had its vociferous critics, no doubt; the U.S. House of Representatives, in fact, has voted a total of 40 times in an effort to either repeal or defund the law. But these efforts have fallen short, and the political momentum to undo the measure, which some people fear will be a giant bureaucratic boondoggle, appears to be waning. Continued on p. 14
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The Bottom Line SUNY Ulster celebrates 50 years; unemployment rate drops in Ulster County; taxes to be big issue in 2014 statewide elections.
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