Small Businesses Confused About PPACA

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Additional survey results include:

• 83% of small employers said they review their companies' health plan benefits once a year;
• More than half of all small employers (59%) ask their employees for input when reviewing their company's health insurance benefits, while 28% of employers said they never ask their employees for input;
• 68% of employers said they had no plans to drop coverage for employees in 2014, compared with only 3% who did plan to stop offering group health insurance coverage;  and
• Nearly a third (29%) of employers said they would consider dropping health coverage for employees in 2014.

eHealth's Small Employer Health Insurance Survey report can be downloaded in full at http://news.ehealthinsurance.com/pr/ehi/document/Small_Employer_Health_Insurance_Survey_2012.pdf. The survey was conducted anonymously online from August 15 to 22 and gathered responses from a total of 439 small businesses that had purchased health insurance policies through eHealthInsurance.com. Of those who provided insurance, 95% had between one and 10 employees.

Corie Russell
editors@plansponsor.com