Small businesses pay 18 percent more than big businesses for health care, the same health care, just because they're small and they have too small a pool of risk.

Health care is the No. 1 concern of small businesses and the status quo is untenable.

We see tremendous excitement from small-business people about the administration and about the attention and commitment that the president has to do things that really make a difference. I think they recognize that health care is one of those. I think they recognize that what we've been doing in the Recovery Act with our loan programs has mattered.

We don't want the efficiency of the federal government and the compassion of the IRS to run our health care.

The great equalizer is health. If you don't have it, you're screwed.