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→Small businesses with fewer than 50 FTE
Despite all of the backlash the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare, has received for its perceived potential destruction on small businesses, for the most part, small businesses with under 50 full time employees are not greatly burdened by the ACA. In fact, companies with fewer than 50 employees, which make up a large portion of small businesses, are not penalized at all for not providing health care to their employees.
Thus, if employers with fewer than 50 FTE find themselves unable or unwilling to accommodate the rising costs of health care, they can simply opt out of providing employee-sponsored health insurance. Those who do decide to provide employer-sponsored health insurance will have to deal with the issue of rising premiums and other slightly increased regulations, as a result of the comprehensive ACA's minimum plan requirements for comprehensiveness and affordable minimum affordability in coverage plan quality accepted by the ACA.
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