Dayton Business Journal
Half of small business owners say health care reform is bad for them
Kent Hoover 

Small business owners just don't know what's good for them -- at least that's what President Barack Obama seems to think when it comes to health care reform. 

A new Gallup Poll finds that 48 percent of small business owners think the Affordable Care Act is going to be bad for their business. These business owners think it will make health insurance more expensive and reduce the quality of care they and their employees will receive. 

Only 9 percent of small business owners think health care reform will be good for them. 

Obama blames these negative perceptions of health care reform on "tall tales" being told by Obamacare's opponents. 

"Some small businesses are being told their costs are going to go up, even though they're exempted from the law or they actually stand to benefit from it," Obama said Friday at a White House event touting the Affordable Care Act's benefits for women. 

"There are a whole bunch of folks out there, their insurance company decided to jack up their rates, and they're automatically assuming, well, somehow the law had something to do with it," he said. "No, that had to do with a decision the insurance company made. In some cases, employers may be shifting more costs onto employees because they think that will help their bottom line. It's convenient to somehow say, well, it must be the new law. It's not the case." 

Obama said this "misinformation will continue -- at least through the next Election Day… 

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