Most small businesses (85 percent) say they aren't making changes or long-term plans based on health care reform legislation, according to an eHealth survey of small business owners released Thursday.
Beginning in 2014, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act requires businesses with fifty or more full-time employees to provide health insurance coverage for their workers. Businesses with less than 50 employees are exempt from this requirement, but employees may be required to purchase their own coverage.
The "Small Employer Health Insurance Survey" from eHealth focused on those businesses that would be exempt, with 88 percent of the 236 small businesses having ten or less workers.
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