Our family business has about 125 employees. We have tried to obtain afffordable coverage in the past but the cost was around $800 per employee per month. We are not a huge corporation with hundreds or even thousands of employees so we can not get coverage at the same rates as they do. For businesses such as ours, it would cost us in the neighborhood of $1,000,000 a year to provide coverage for all of our FTE's. Even a fraction of that amount would absolutely put us out of business. I am 100% in agreement that there needs to be a plan in place but I can't understand on any level how this makes sense. How can I, with 125 employees be categorized as a "Large Business", and be subjected to the same guidelines as a large corporation. Please make it actually "affordable" for everyone.



