Business Owners Try to Make Sense of Health Care (New York Times)

The Supreme Court’s expected decision on the partially implemented Affordable Care Act is just around the corner. No matter which way the Court decides, managing health care insurance as a business owner is already complicated. Johnson Security Bureau recently jumped from 40 to 80 employees. Insurers consider a large company as anything over 50 employees, but owner Jessica Johnson doesn’t have large group employer dollars. Further, Johnson considers anything over 32 hours a week to be full time, but some insurers use lower number to get more people in the pool. Alexandra Mayzler, owner of Thinking Cap Tutoring, has a constantly shifting number of employees, yet any insurance plan she chose would be based on number of employees and the percentage that opt in.