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(Harvard School of Public Health) A new poll by the Harvard School of Public Health and The Boston Globe finds 63 percent of Massachusetts residents support the health care reform legislation enacted in 2006, 21 percent oppose it while 6 percent are not sure and 9 percent have not heard or read about the law.

Minneapolis and Nashville, Tennessee (PRESS RELEASE – April 10, 2011) – A new study published recently supports the premise that high-quality employee wellness programs in small businesses improve employee health and well-being, which drives improvements in organizational outcomes such as absenteeism, healthcare costs and disability claims.

Featured in the Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, it is among the first peer-reviewed research evaluating the effectiveness of worksite health and wellness programs offered by a small employer.

Hartford, Connecticut (PRESS RELEASE – February 13, 2011) – Most small business owners barely have 15 minutes to eat lunch.

That means they probably don’t have time to go through thousands of pages of federal legislation to see how it impacts their business.

With time at a premium, Aetna (NYSE: AET) recently launched a small business “tax credit calculator.”

Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania (PRESS RELEASE – January 23, 2011) – The Small Business Tax Credit Calculator, developed and launched by Tax Credits, LLC and available for use by tax professionals and self-filers, is the only online calculator tool valid in all 50 states to complete lines 1-14 of IRS Form 8941 for the tax preparer.

This 100% guaranteed numerical calculation turns what the IRS projects to be a 12-16 hour task into minutes, saving time and frustration for tax preparers and small business owners everywhere.

Mechanicsburg, Philadelphia (September 6, 2010) – The Small Business Tax Credit Calculator, in production for the last three months, has just been launched by Tax Credits, LLC at http://www.smallbusinesstaxcreditcalculator.com.

The calculator computes specific, complete, and actual numerical data needed for qualifying small businesses to use in filing tax returns to take advantage of the Small Business Tax Credit (SBTC) created by the new Health Care Reform legislation called The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.

(American College of Physicians) A practical resource guide for internists on recently-enacted health-care reform legislation, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, was released today by the American College of Physicians.

"An Internist's Practical Guide to Understanding Health System Reform" was developed by ACP's Division of Governmental Affairs and Public Policy, a significant player in helping to shape this year's health care reform legislation.

Hawaii would be allowed to opt out of key requirements of national health care reform legislation, the only state given such a privilege because it already has its own comprehensive health insurance law.

(American College of Physicians) Agreeing with the broad goals and most of the underlying policies contained in a comprehensive draft bill on health care reform legislation, the American College of Physicians today praised the House "tri-committee." Made up of the House Ways and Means, Energy and Commerce, and Education and Labor Committees, the "tri-committee" unveiled its proposed legislation on June 19.