{"id":3043,"date":"2016-05-31T10:27:50","date_gmt":"2016-05-31T14:27:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=3043"},"modified":"2016-05-31T10:27:50","modified_gmt":"2016-05-31T14:27:50","slug":"under-obamacare-small-business-owner-forced-to-get-rid-of-health-care-benefits-or-face-fine-up-to-500k","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=3043","title":{"rendered":"Under Obamacare, Small Business Owner Forced to Get Rid of Health Care Benefits or Face Fine Up to $500K"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Melissa Quinn for The Daily Signal)<\/p>\n<p>When Maryland business owner Thomas Kunkel first learned about the Affordable Care Act, he was excited about the prospect of the new health care law.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFrom the small business standpoint, it was actually one of the first times I felt like a bit of a social program might actually benefit a small business,\u201d he told The Daily Signal. \u201cUsually it\u2019s the opposite.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kunkel owns Full House Marketing and Print in Edgewood, Maryland, and employs 21 full-time workers and up to 10 part-time employees. While he doesn\u2019t provide them with health insurance, Kunkel cuts his workers a monthly check through a Health Reimbursement Agreement. <a href=\"http:\/\/dailysignal.com\/2016\/05\/30\/under-obamacare-small-business-owner-forced-to-get-rid-of-health-care-benefits-or-face-fine-up-to-500k\/?utm_source=TDS_Email&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=MorningBell&amp;mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiTUdRMVkyVXlOek15WTJaaSIsInQiOiI0WkxPc2VmMnFVTUd5Ymg5MzNmWnVIZFk1S1pDVkN2dVlRaHZRaFNDUjZ5ZkdrQTZZWE53WFlCSmdoS0NIZkYySzdxZERKb1czOWhpdFo1ZmVDbDA0aTNadDZhNVhXb0pRaFRHcjlOZHRzYz0ifQ%3D%3D\" target=\"_blank\">Read article here&#8230;..<\/a><\/p>\n<pre><strong>Notice<\/strong>: The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org.<\/pre>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By Melissa Quinn for The Daily Signal) When Maryland business owner Thomas Kunkel first learned about the Affordable Care Act,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-affordable-care-act-aca"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3043","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3043"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3043\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3044,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3043\/revisions\/3044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}