Path to opportunity

Columnist Froma Harrop had a comment on Jan. 29 about Obamacare that almost nobody else has brought up, but that I think would be a large part of the unemployment solution. “More positions will free up as the new health care law helps workers who want to start businesses, but are afraid of losing their company medical coverage.”

I retired from Kaiser in 1999 with a promise of health care at $39 a month. After working for a friend for two years, I started my own business. That business now has three people part time and myself full time doing software work for local companies. It never would have happened without the promise from Kaiser that my health care would be taken care of until I hit 65. (Of course, that disappeared after Kaiser went bust, but I didn’t see that coming.)

I have often wondered just how many entrepreneur wannabes there are out there who would go for it if only they had a reasonable way to assure health care for themselves, their families and eventually their employees. How many jobs could be created by these innovators?

Dennis DeMattia

Spokane