{"id":79028,"date":"2013-05-13T23:48:01","date_gmt":"2013-05-14T03:48:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/uncategorized\/small-businesses-mull-health-care-overhauls-impact.php"},"modified":"2013-05-13T23:48:01","modified_gmt":"2013-05-14T03:48:01","slug":"small-businesses-mull-health-care-overhauls-impact","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/health-care\/small-businesses-mull-health-care-overhauls-impact.php","title":{"rendered":"Small businesses mull health care overhaul&#39;s impact"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>Health care reform  by Elizabeth  Stawicki, Minnesota Public Radio  <\/p>\n<p>    May 13, 2013  <\/p>\n<p>            Audio player code:            <iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"minnesota_general_features_2013_05_13_healthoverhaulsmallbiz_20130513_64s_player\" type=\"text\/html\" width=\"319\" height=\"83\" src=\"http:\/\/minnesota.publicradio.org\/www_publicradio\/tools\/media_player\/syndicate.php?name=minnesota\/general\/features\/2013\/05\/13\/healthoverhaulsmallbiz_20130513_64\" marginheight=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowFullScreen><\/iframe>          <\/p>\n<p>    ST. PAUL, Minn.     Organizations representing small business have been among the    sharpest critics of the federal health care overhaul. But the    opposition is not universal. Some small business owners in    Minnesota hope they'll find new health insurance options thanks    to the law and MNSURE, the new state new online insurance    marketplace it created.  <\/p>\n<p>    Although businesses with fewer than 50 employees don't have to    provide insurance to their workers under the federal health    care law, business owners like Melissa Martinson nevertheless    want to.  <\/p>\n<p>    Martinson, president of Technomics Research, a small health    care consulting business in Medina, Minn., began shopping for a    company health plan for the firm's five employees about 10    years ago.  <\/p>\n<p>    \"Every year I'd go to a number of insurance brokers and say,    'what can you do for the company?'\" she recalled. \"And they    would do some analysis and come back and say, 'well I'm sorry'    but because of, you know, my age, they were unable to do    anything better than we could get as individuals.\"  <\/p>\n<p>    At 56, Martinson is a decade or two older than her youngest    workers. She is healthy and has no pre-existing conditions, but    her age alone raised the premium rates for a group plan.  <\/p>\n<p>    As a result, it made more sense for the employees to buy    individual plans, because they were less expensive. The    business helped them shoulder the cost with profit sharing.  <\/p>\n<p>    Martinson is hoping the new online insurance marketplace,    MNSURE,    will offer a small business health insurance plan that's more    affordable than the current arrangement.  <\/p>\n<p><!-- Auto Generated --><\/p>\n<p>Follow this link: <\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/minnesota.publicradio.org\/display\/web\/2013\/05\/13\/health\/small-businesses-mnsure?refid=0\" title=\"Small businesses mull health care overhaul&#39;s impact\">Small businesses mull health care overhaul&#39;s impact<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Health care reform by Elizabeth Stawicki, Minnesota Public Radio May 13, 2013 Audio player code: ST. 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