 The CEO of a Seattle based company made headlines back in 2015 when he announced that he'd be cutting his own pay in order to boost the Salaries for all of his employees and his name is Dan Price because he doesn't put a price on the worth of his employees But he returned to Fox business news to offer them some advice on what policies would actually Help small businesses and what he recommended It shocked the Fox news host in fact his head nearly exploded You're going to see his response when Dan Price actually recommends single-payer health care specifically to help small businesses This is gold if you want to help small businesses One of the ways to do it is to take the burden of health care away from those small businesses Small businesses like mine could pay a lot more in wages and provide a better incentive for employees Also, if we raise the minimum wage We'll be able to then have that funnel upward with the economy because right now We have a third of all American wealth stuck at the very top with the billionaires If we can have a bottom-up economy that works for everybody we can provide the right incentives for employees So so you think by making it more expensive for a small business. It's going to help them well actually When I started my small business Health care was One of my biggest costs and it still is today But that money actually comes out of my ability to pay employees higher wages So instead of a seventy thousand dollar minimum wage I could have an eighty five thousand dollar minimum wage if we had a health care system that instead of being a giveaway for the insurance Companies actually provided health care for people all over the place. I absolutely applaud Dan Price What he's doing here is so important Fox business They don't like to listen to people unless they're in powerful positions unless they're business leaders So Dan Price is the one CEO who actually goes on Fox News and challenges Their narrative is the only business leader Who actually bursts Fox News's bubble because if you tune into Fox business They're doing nothing but propaganda at the behest of pro corporate America I mean just watch five minutes of Stuart Varney and you'll see how they don't actually even try to appeal to normal viewers This is all about appeasing the business class And it's really transparent. It's despicable. So when you actually challenge their narrative They don't know how to respond and so even after Dan Price very clearly laid out how Making this burden of health care go away with help small businesses The Fox News host didn't know how else to respond So he just says oh so you think that by making it more expensive for small businesses is going to help them No, he literally just said the opposite were you not listening? He said if these small businesses don't have to pay for health care for their employees If this was just something that was guaranteed by the government, they would actually have more money They could actually pay their workers more It's like everything that Dan Price was saying it just went in one ear or not the other and the Fox News Host just had nothing left to say so he just reverted back to his original talking points Oh, well, you want to hurt small businesses with Medicare for all. No dummy I'm literally explaining how this helps small businesses and it's not like Dan Price is some radical socialist who's Saying this whereas, you know other businesses wouldn't necessarily have the same opinion because other small businesses have echoed the same exact sentiment And as Dr. Erica Gonzalez wrote in an op-ed for the Hill the impact the rising costs of health care health expenditures reached 3.8 trillion in 2019 and are expected to rise to 6.2 trillion in seven years are having on Main Street as a serious threat to our economy and Society in fact a national survey of more than 800 small business owners Conducted by small business for America's future found that desperate small business owners are being crushed by health care costs and overwhelmingly demand government action to relieve the burden As an example of how bad the problem is the survey found that 55% of small business owners say the cost of providing health insurance to their employees Is the biggest challenge they face and here's the kicker the difficulty of ensuring workers surpassed taxes corporate competition and even COVID-19 half of survey respondents report providing health insurance as a benefit 76% of the small business owners that do not provide insurance say it's because the cost of doing so is too high and alarming 53% of small business owners who do offer insurance say they have considered dropping it because of the cost not surprising when 9 and 10 survey respondents said their health insurance costs Increased over the past four years with 40% responding that costs have risen by 10% or more a year So it makes sense to suggest that a single-payer health care system would absolutely Be a boost to small businesses in fact some of the candidates who I've spoken with who are running for Congress in Red districts, they actually don't use the usual arguments that I make on this program to sell Medicare for all They sell it as a tax cut for small businesses because it's technically literally that if you alleviate this burden From small businesses then imagine how much more money they'd have Not just to not just to pay their employees, but to actually expand their businesses grow So I think that this is a no-brainer What's shocking to me is just the fact that a CEO said this on Fox business news Like I get that this is Dan Price and he's usually pretty based He's known for saying awesome things like this But you know, it's nice to have one person at least going on Fox news and pushing back against their pro-corporate narrative That's really really awesome to see and whenever I see this happening I always feel the need to showcase it on this program because it gives me hope and when we're in this time where You know the situation the future looks bleak to say the least I think that we need to really celebrate the small victories and I think that Dan Price saying this on Fox news You know Saying this to an audience who wouldn't necessarily be receptive to this message in and of itself That is a victory and I'm gonna take it