The President tried again to sell the health care law to a skeptical public saying, “The health care act is doing what it’s designed to do: deliver more choices, better benefits, a check on rising costs and higher-quality care.”
One of them, Mary Miller, CEO of Cincinnati’s JANCOA Janitorial Services begs to differ. She told CNN’s Jake Tapper, “I’m going to be out of business, and that’s not okay with me.”
Because of the health care law, Miller’s company faces a staggering $1.4 million bill for health insurance for her employees, a $640,000 fine, or cutting hours for her staff. The administration delaying the employer mandate only pushes off these hard decisions for a year.
Miller isn’t alone in her worries. According to the U.S. Chamber’s Small Business Outlook Survey, 79% of small businesses say the health care law will make health insurance coverage more expensive, and 71% of small businesses say the law makes it harder to hire workers.
In 2012, Free Enterprise interviewed Miller after she testified before Congress on the how the health care law would hurt her company.