Rate Increases For Small Businesses Could Be the Next Obamacare Crisis
Changes will kick in just before the 2014 elections
Think the canceled health policies hurt the Obamacare cause? There's another political time bomb lurking that could explode not too long before next year's elections: rate hikes for small businesses.
Like the canceled individual health plans, it's another example of a tradeoff that health care experts have long known about, as the new rules for health insurance prices create winners and losers. But most Americans won't become aware of it until some small business employees learn that their premiums are going up because of a law called — oops — the Affordable Care Act.