As an employer with fewer than 50 employees, I was repeatedly assured the ACA did not apply to me and that I would be able to keep my plan – that is simply not my experience,’ said Drew Greenblatt, owner of Marlin Steel Wire in Baltimore. ‘I was startled, I was shocked, when our health insurance went up 49 percent this year,’ Greenblatt added.” (WSB Radio) “‘I was shocked back in September when I received notice from Blue Cross Blue Shield that my health care plan was being cancelled,’ Sheila Salter, the sole proprietor behind early2surg, a consulting firm in North Carolina, said during a hearing before members of the Senate Small Business and Entrepreneurship Committee. … She had intended to start expanding and creating jobs in the near future, but she says the added costs of her new plan will put those plans on the backburner.” (The Washington Post) “Neveu, who runs the Portland-based software company Certify LLC, summed up his experience in the past 30 days with two words: frustration and confusion. He said he was shocked initially to learn that his employees’ insurance plan – for which Certify pays 100 percent of the premiums – will not […]
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