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Many small-business owners worry that a new tax on insurance providers in the health-care law will mean higher premiums for them, undermining the law’s capacity to lower their health-care costs. Starting next year, the federal government will charge a new fee on health insurance firms based on the plans they sell to individuals and companies, known as the fully insured market. Meanwhile, the provision exempts health-insurance plans that are set up and operated by businesses themselves (the self-insured market). Revenue from the tax will help pay for the health-care overhaul, which is expected to extend coverage to millions of uninsured...

This is an example of one kind of fallout from the coming new Obamacare rules. My brother-in-law manages a grocery store. His part-time employees do not have healthcare benefits, but he could give them almost full-time hours. He is now being forced to cut their hours to 28. Not only do they not have healthcare, now their wages have been cut back considerably. One employee told him that due to the cut in hours, she is now eligible for rent assistance. So, under the new rules, not only will the working middle class be paying for her healthcare, we will...