Next Obamacare Issue: The Definition of ‘Small Employer’

The Affordable Care Act actually imposes more costly benefit mandates on individual and small group health insurance policies than it does on large employer plans.

Edmund Haislmaier, --September 11, 2015

| Comments | Reader Friendly | Subscribe | Email Us


Unsurprisingly there are more problems with the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) that await members of Congress coming back from their August recess.
Topping the list of issues is a provision in Obamacare that changes the definition of “small employer” from “50 or fewer employees” to “100 or fewer employees,” starting January 1, 2016. While there are previous instances when Congress has exempted small employers from a requirement imposed on larger businesses, in this instance the opposite is the case. More...

View Comments
Heritage Foundation——

The Heritage Foundation is the nation’s most broadly supported public policy research institute, with more than 453,000 individual, foundation and corporate donors. Heritage, founded in February 1973,  mission is
to formulate and promote conservative public policies based on the principles of free enterprise, limited government, individual freedom, traditional American values, and a strong national defense.