Affordable Care Act Helping Small Businesses
Rep. Wasserman Schultz met Monday with a small business owner to talk about how the Affordable Care Act has benefitted her employees
Pembroke Pines, Fla. – The game-changing health care law, the Affordable Health Care Act, passed by Congress and signed by the President two years ago, marks a historic shift in our country. This law is already giving American families and small businesses more control over their health care by reducing costs, increasing choice, and instituting common-sense rules.
On Monday, March 26, Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (FL-20) met with employees at the GBS Group, a consulting firm for small and medium businesses in the Hispanic market, to talk about how the Affordable Care Act has helped employees of the business.
Before health care reform, GBS group was not able to offer health insurance to its employees. Now thanks to the tax credits in the Affordable Care Act, GBS group can offer insurance to all 21 employees. One of those employees, Loredana Ramirez, went without health insurance until the company offered it in 2010. She talked about how she lived on a hope and a prayer that she wouldn’t get sick because she couldn’t afford medical care without insurance coverage, and the difference in her life now that she has it.
Friday marked the two-year anniversary of the Affordable Care Act becoming law, and on Monday, the Supreme Court began hearing its biggest case in decades involving the Affordable Care Act.