If you want to help new businesses succeed fix health care. We once lost a very valuable employee (to a Canadian firm) because we simply didn't have the cash flow to offer a health care benefit. It sucked. He stuck out as long as he could, and I completely understand his decision. The fact is, health care is extremely expensive to offer and only getting worse.<p>Find a way to help new businesses (who are tremendously cash strapped almost by definition) to compete sanely with the rest of the world. Do it now, politics aside.
The author argues that "measures should be put in place to help start-ups learn how to avoid correctable problems."<p>Does anybody else think that already exists? What is one of the purposes of HN, anyways? :)