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Congratulations, Susan Evans of Office Nomads! She’s the big winner in the drawing we held for the $500 Apple gift certificate, as part of the Biznik Member Survey we conducted last week. And a big thank you to iStockphoto, which made the incentive possible – they provided the gift certificate in return for participating in the survey.

I’m flying to New York next week to participate in a press conference put together by iStock, in which we’ll reveal what we learned. And there’s some really good stuff in there.

Here’s a sneak peek: 90.8 percent of Biznik members say it’s time to reform health care (although they disagree whether reform efforts should focus on public or private changes – 56.8 percent say public, and 34 say private). Maybe that’s because 19.2 percent of you have NO health insurance whatsoever. The national average is around 15 percent without health insurance, so we know from this survey that starting a small business makes you LESS likely to have coverage.

I personally know what that’s like – I put ALL my money into my first business, going without health insurance for about 7 years before I could finally afford it. I got lucky and didn’t get sick or injured during that time. But many aren’t so lucky. We hear you loud and clear: health care reform is an entrepreneurial issue. And the time to act is now.

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