If you stop to think about it, it’s rather astonishing to reflect that it was back in 1993 that newly sworn-in President William Jefferson Clinton vowed to fix health care and provide coverage for everybody in the country. The rest, as they say, is history. It is now sixteen years later and we have the very next Democrat elected to the highest office in the land expressing his determination to do the very same thing. Shades of dejá vú all over again. What is interesting about this attempt is that the tactics of its detractors, those who either disagree with the Democrats’ approach or simply want this attempt to fail in order to inflict political damage on the Obama Administration, and its defenders are very different. For example: you are the President of the United States, you need to tell people things, and the press is proving useless. What do you do?

Fortunately for you, the Web is much more sophisticated than it was in Bill Clinton’s day and Barack Obama has been using it to reach out to various interest groups, including small businesses. Earlier this month, Vice President Biden held one of his Middle Class Task Force Roundtable Discussions to talk to small business owners and advocates about health care reform. The President recently convened his own similar meeting at the White House. Last week, the Council of Economic Advisors released a report on small firms and health care reform, to coincide with the President’s Weekly Address during which he channeled more of the same. He’s even meeting with a certain amount of success among this normally conservative group, just because we’re so close to finally getting something done. Will he garner enough support from this group to make a difference? Only time will tell.