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An article recently published in Healthcare Finance states, for Kelly Kjelstrom, plugging the gaps in mental health care can mean something as simple as a late-night taco and a friendly chat.

In an article written this month on business.com Dan Blacharski reports, “The housing crash of 2008-2009 continues to have repercussions in the minority-owned small business community, for which business loans are increasingly unavailable. Frequently, these groups of excluded borrowers refer to non-white, non-immigrant citizens with marginal to severe credit woes. For minority business owners, that adds up to roughly 4.1 million companies with little or no access to business credit.” Blacharski goes on to say,

According to Modern Healthcare, Physicians have pledged to retire or leave Medicare as a result of burdens placed on them by the recently finalized payment rule. That could spur Republicans, soon to be fully in charge of the government, to slow federal value-based payment efforts.

A recent article published on Forbes states, what does a Trump presidency mean for small business? Hard to say. Unlike Hillary Clinton, Trump didn’t go out of his way to reach small business owners. And unlike Clinton, Trump ran a campaign more concerned with principles than specific policies. He was even willing to rearrange principles when politics demanded it.

According to The New York Times, Many people have to wait too long to see a doctor. And it could get worse. If, as many people believe, we have a shortage of doctors in the United States, then it follows that we can fix this only by training and hiring more physicians.

Recently published in Advance Healthcare Network, According to a survey carried out by Scrypt, Inc., developers of secure and compliant productivity tools for regulated industries, more than half (56%) of healthcare professionals believe their organization could be doing more to educate employees on HIPAA compliance and the rules around sharing Protected Health Information (PHI), as noted by a press release.

The Business Journals reports, as a leading voice for the small-business sector, one of the factors I track and report on is public policy.

According to the Bladen Journal, raising the federal minimum wage to $12 per hour could reduce private sector employment by 1.8 million jobs over 10 years and cut economic output by $2 trillion, according to a new report released today by the National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB).

NPR reports, Minimum wages are on their way to $15 an hour in New York and California. Workers look forward to the bump. But some small businesses are bracing for a hit to their bottom line.

The NFIB reports, with $15 minimum wage hikes on the horizon for many areas across the country, small businesses are prepping for the worst. Brace yourselves, business owners: The minimum wage continues to rise.