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You know what drives me insane?  My dad is incredibly anti Obama and a small business owner.  He hates Obamacare.  Yet he provides his employees with health insurance (even though he would be exempt) because he knows that is one of hte perks that keep really good employees around for years and that is so valuable to him.  It's what allows him to have a life outside running that business.  It's what allows him to go on vacation and go golfing every weekend - the fact that he has good, stable employees that he can trust.  Drives me crazy that sees the value in what he is providing but can't see that value is applying it to the workforce at large.[/quote]
Well, your dad will no longer be the only one providing health insurance. Quality employees who stay because of the health insurance, no longer have that as a reason to stay. Your dad might not be such a wonderful boss[/quote]

I think you are missing the point - my dad sees the value as a small business owner in providing employees with incentives to stay - healthcare (and paid premiums), retirement plans, and a fair wage. So there is a bit of irony in him being against Obamacare (which equates providing healthcare to employees as something just and right) while he himself believes that providing healthcare as just and right.

Either way, his competitors are small business that are also exempt from Obamacare, so the incentive to stay will still be there in my Dad's case.
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I really wish you would sit down with your dad and let him tell you the myriad of reasons why he's not "excempt" from ACA. He's exempt from the Employer Mandate, that's about it. Which in itself is a huge disincentive to grow. To you realize that business that are so-called "exempt" will do what they can to STAY excempt, such as reducing hours, not expanding or hiring. Yeah...we're exempt!!![/quote]

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