{"id":239,"date":"2012-06-25T10:09:00","date_gmt":"2012-06-25T14:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/?p=239"},"modified":"2012-06-25T10:09:00","modified_gmt":"2012-06-25T14:09:00","slug":"small-business-majority-small-business-owners-views-on-implementing-the-affordable-care-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/?p=239","title":{"rendered":"Small Business Majority | Small Business Owners\u2019 Views on Implementing the Affordable Care Act"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.smallbusinessmajority.org\/small-business-research\/healthcare\/small-business-owners-views-on-aca.php\">Small Business Majority | Small Business Owners\u2019 Views on Implementing the Affordable Care Act<\/a><\/p>\n<h5>Key findings:<\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Only a third of small business owners want the Supreme Court to overturn the Affordable Care Act; a plurality of 50% would like it upheld, with minor or no changes. This support grows after learning more details about the law\u2019s key provisions:<\/b><br \/>Only 34% of small businesses want to see the healthcare law overturned, while 50% want it to remain intact with, at most, minor changes. After learning more about its specifics, only 28% want to see it repealed and a 56% majority want it to be kept, as is or with minor changes. A 55% majority say they want it upheld because we need to make sure everyone has health coverage.\n<p><b><span style=\"color: #1e4b68;\">Figure 1:<\/span><\/b> <i>After learning about the law, support for the Affordable Care Act grows<\/i><\/p>\n<table cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>There has been a lot of talk about the nation&#8217;s health care reform law, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. Which one of the following statements comes closest to your point of view when it comes to this law.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Figure 1: Owners agree clean energy investments will boost economy, create jobs\" height=\"139\" src=\"http:\/\/www.smallbusinessmajority.org\/small-business-research\/healthcare\/images\/aca-1.png\" width=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n<table cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>After everything you read, which one of the following statements comes closest to your point of view when it comes to the nation&#8217;s healthcare reform law, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Figure 1: Owners agree clean energy investments will boost economy, create jobs\" height=\"138\" src=\"http:\/\/www.smallbusinessmajority.org\/small-business-research\/healthcare\/images\/aca-2.png\" width=\"450\" \/><\/li>\n<li><b>By an 8:1 margin, entrepreneurs say they\u2019d consider using a state health insurance exchange, and they favorably view many possible features of the exchange:<\/b><br \/>A 66% majority of small business owners say they would use their state exchange or at least consider using it, compared to 8% who say they would not consider using it when they provide benefits. By wide margins, entrepreneurs find a host of possible features of the exchange very appealing. By a 2:1 ratio, small business owners support their state applying for federal funds to set one up.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Small Business Majority | Small Business Owners\u2019 Views on Implementing the Affordable Care Act Key findings: Only a third of small business owners want the Supreme Court to overturn the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/?p=239\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Small Business Majority | Small Business Owners\u2019 Views on Implementing the Affordable Care Act&#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":[24,39,48,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-and-healthcare","category-defending-ppaca","category-individual-mandate","category-ppaca"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239","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=239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}