Not Loudoun-related, but I wanted to share an article I just saw; it’s from the Forbes.com website (not exactly a publication that would be very sympathetic to progressive causes) that states that the tax breaks offered to small businesses in the health care reform law to provide their employees with health care coverage have actually spurred a number of those small businesses to do just that.

The major health insurance companies around the country are reporting a significant increase in small businesses offering health care benefits to their employees.

I don’t know who Rick Ungar (the blog author) is, since I don’t normally read Forbes, but he makes a compelling argument that opponents of the healthcare reform law should divert their attention elsewhere, because the law is actually doing something that it was intended to do – provide health coverage to those who had none previously, and making it affordable for businesses to do so.

If you’re all about beating up on President Obama, you can conveniently forget this bit of data as if it never really happened. However, if your interest is to make health care available to more Americans, this should be a happy day for you – no matter what your ideological beliefs.

So, Republicans in Congress, if you want to try to repeal, go right ahead & try – it’s a political stunt that, according to this bit of new data coming in, may just come back to bite you in the butt.

Oh, and unemployment dropped last month, from 9.8% to 9.4% – not overwhelming, but a step in the right direction, along with the 103,000 new jobs created.