This series of stories explores the complex implementation of the Affordable Care Act through the lens of small, medium and large employers. Taken together, the three stories reveal how the law’s benefits to the uninsured are being paid for through mandates and taxes levied on employers and their workers. The first story (4/30/2014) told of a small business owner who grapples with the law’s impact on volatile insurance prices. The second story (5/1/2014) hears from a medium sized owner who is wrestling with how much to increase what his largely unhealthy employees pay for insurance or whether to send them to Ohio’s federal marketplace. And in the final story (5/2/2014) one of the country’s largest companies discloses that the law will cost it millions in extra insurance fees. The three- part series is an eye-opening reminder that the Affordable Act does come at a cost.
