Dashboard: The Insane Burden of Health Insurance

This week, we learn that Gene Marks and Bernie Sanders agree on something, which is that there are better ways to handle health insurance than making business owners responsible for providing it to their employees. Isn’t running a business hard enough without this financial and bureaucratic burden? Does it really have to be this way? Plus: Why Gene thinks what he calls “the era of the worker” won’t last forever. And what business owners need to know and do before they lay off or fire employees.

Om Podcasten

The 21 Hats Podcast presents an authentic weekly conversation with small business owners who are remarkably willing to share what’s working for them and what isn’t. Unlike many business podcasts, which tend to talk to highly successful entrepreneurs whose struggles are in the past, the 21 Hats Podcast features a rotating cast of business owners who are still very much in the trenches fighting the good fight. Every week, our regulars gather to talk about the kinds of important issues many owners won’t even discuss behind closed doors: whether their businesses are as profitable as they should be, whether they are willing to give up some control to an investor in order to grow faster, why they had to lay off employees, how they wound up with way too much inventory, why they don’t have a succession plan, and even why they are concerned about their own mental health. Visit 21hats.com to hear all of our podcast episodes, read episode transcripts, and learn more. The show is produced by Jess Thoubboron, founder of Blank Word.