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April 25, 2007 at 07:05 AM
Increasing costs are forcing small business owners to drop health care coverage and embrace sweeping health care reform, a new study finds.
Unease about the economy’s future (42%), the cost of health insurance (39% and lack of available capital (31%) led the list of small business concerns, according to the National Small Business Association, Washington, which sponsored the study.
While 58% of small business owners offered health insurance to their employees 10 years ago, that number declined to 41% in 2007, NSBA found.
