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→Small Businesses with More than Fifty Employees
Companies with 50 to 100 FTE employees are required to provide health insurance coverage to their employees, but the penalties imposed for not complying with the ACA requirements for these companies were delayed until 2016. Companies with up to 100 FTE employees can purchase insurance through the employer-only insurance exchanges, were are run by the states; these exchanges could possibly result in lower health care costs for small businesses by pooling customers [http://www.forbes.com/sites/groupthink/2012/08/10/will-obamacare-help-or-hurt-small-businesses/2/#49ebac0f31e5].
The employer mandate penalty for companies with more than 99 employees was delayed until 2015. As a result With all of these the delaysin penalties, it is not entirely possible difficult to fully understand and analyze the exact effects of the ACA on small businesses (especially those that are required by the law to provide health insurance to its employees).
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