Health care divides small business community

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(Fortune Small Business) — Congressional efforts to revamp the country’s healthcare system have sparked a fierce debate within the small business community, pitting owners who believe that reform would curb rising healthcare costs against neighbors who fear higher taxes. All sides of the debate were on display this summer as legislators met with their constituents around the country.

“It’s going to cost me more money,” fretted Iowa entrepreneur Joe Butler at an August roundtable that Rep. Leonard Boswell, D-Iowa, held in Polk City, Iowa.

Butler owns an engineering consulting firm and hopes to bring his contract workers on staff within the next few months. “Until it all gets settled and I know exactly what’s going to happen,” he said, “I’m just kind of taking it slow.”