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TRI-STATE (WFIE) - Small business owners in the Tri-State are turning to Hoosier lawmakers for help.
Business owners like Connie Engelbrecht, owner of the northside Engelbrecht Orchard, want lawmakers to support a new public healthcare reform.
They said they're going out of business because of high insurance premiums.
"The biggest thing that small businesses go out on is insurance issues," Engelbrecht said. "There are a lot of places that aren't even offering insurance period. They could give their employees more pay. If the employee has it already set, and they are happy with the public plan, then they could worry about the other parts of their business and not so much that."
Many of these business owners wrote letters of their struggles.
Those letters, written on paper apples, will be delivered to Indiana Senators Bayh and Lugar.
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