Health insurance remains top small business concern [Video]

Every four years, the National Federation of Independent Business releases a study ranking small business owners’ problems and priorities. They say in New York that while the top ranker is no surprise, there are items that are of higher concern in New York than in other states.

“We cover all of the buckets that small business owners deal with on a day-to-day basis,” said New York State Director for the National Federation of Independent Business Ashley Ranslow.

Ranslow explained those buckets represent 75 situations or concerns that small business owners are asked to rank. A national sample of 40,000 NFIB members was drawn with a separate sample of 1,500 drawn for New York to create state-specific rankings.

Coming in at number one in New York state is the cost of providing health insurance. It’s been number one since 1986, and she argued that part of that boils down to the …