President Obama’s statement in his health-care speech last week that a health-care system overhaul would benefit “families, businesses, and government” is drawing fire from nonprofit groups, which say they are being left out of efforts to give employers relief from rising health-care costs, reports The New York Times.

“There was nothing in that much-repeated trilogy of those needing help that spoke to nonprofits,” said Lester M. Salamon, head of Johns Hopkins University’s Center for Civil Society Studies.

The main overhaul legislation before the House would give tax credits to small businesses that provide health insurance to workers, a provision that would not help organizations that are tax-exempt, which collectively are the nation’s fourth-largest employer. Some groups are calling for a subsidy akin to the earned income tax credit for organizations that provide insurance.

See The Chronicle’s article on the health-care concerns of nonprofit groups and on a Johns Hopkins report on health-care coverage at charities.

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