Senator Warner joined four of his colleagues today in a series of Senate floor speeches on how health reform will help small businesses.

Small business owners, he said, currently lack the bargaining power that large firms enjoy -- which helps explain why small businesses often pay as much as 18 percent more for the same health insurance coverage provided to larger companies.

"The only people who pay retail -- who pay full price for their health care benefits in America today -- are small businesses and those who purchase health care on the individual-based market.  There is no group that will benefit more from, or have more to gain from, more meaningful health care reform than small businesses."  

You can watch his floor speech below: