Late Wednesday, Mr. Mike Bergmeier, President of Shield Agricultural Equipment in Hutchinson, KS, testified before the House Small Business Committee at the invitation of Committee Member Tim Huelskamp (R-Kansas). Mr. Bergmeier didn’t mince words when he explained ObamaCare’s impact: “Because of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010, my company will remain at 44 full time and 4 to 15 part time employees. Any benefit of the PPACA aside, this is the real issue. It hurts the people you are trying to help the most, folks in the lower and middle-income classes. Those 4 to 15 part time men and women will not have access to my health care insurance, and I won’t expand. As my company-paid, total health care insurance premiums increased by $45,000 a year, that is one person I cannot hire. It’s that simple.”
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