{"id":172,"date":"2012-10-23T20:52:00","date_gmt":"2012-10-24T00:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/?p=172"},"modified":"2012-10-23T20:52:00","modified_gmt":"2012-10-24T00:52:00","slug":"obamacare-is-not-causing-small-businesses-to-drop-their-employees-coverage-thinkprogress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/?p=172","title":{"rendered":"Obamacare Is Not Causing Small Businesses To Drop Their Employees&#8217; Coverage | ThinkProgress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/health\/2012\/10\/23\/1070951\/obamacare-small-businesses-coverage\/\">Obamacare Is Not Causing Small Businesses To Drop Their Employees&#8217; Coverage | ThinkProgress<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>And a new study <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/brucejapsen\/2012\/10\/23\/little-sign-employers-shedding-health-coverage-ahead-of-obamacare\/\">assuages similar fears<\/a>  that small business owners might drop coverage for their employees  before Obamacare takes effect in order to avoid being hit with crippling  expenses. The Midwest Business Group on Health <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mbgh.org\/Go.aspx?NavigationKey=7769c364-9c8a-4a2b-ac3e-764335d0dbdb\">surveyed<\/a>  businesses across 16 states, ranging in size from small companies with  fewer than 1,000 employees to larger corporations that employ more than  5,000, and found \u201clittle indication that employers plan to drop health  care coverage.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>As <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/brucejapsen\/2012\/10\/23\/little-sign-employers-shedding-health-coverage-ahead-of-obamacare\/\">Forbes reports<\/a>,  while employers understand that they may want to adjust the scope of  their health benefits plans, they are not anticipating the need to drop  coverage for their employees because of the health reform law\u2019s  implementation&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Obamacare Is Not Causing Small Businesses To Drop Their Employees&#8217; Coverage | ThinkProgress And a new study assuages similar fears that small business owners might drop coverage for their employees &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/?p=172\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Obamacare Is Not Causing Small Businesses To Drop Their Employees&#8217; Coverage | ThinkProgress&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[24,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-and-healthcare","category-ppaca"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}