Health Insurance News How Small Businesses Can Set Themselves Up For Success With Health Care Benefits In 2025

Terry Savage: Lower health care premiums with small biz insurance

Suddenly millions of working Americans can no longer afford “Obamacare” health insurance, as premium subsidies have been removed. But there is one other potential health insurance opportunity that ... Read More

Small business owners in limbo over insurance subsidies

Deb Dauphinais is considering something she never thought she’d do – forgoing purchasing health insurance for next year. The co-owner of Bicycle East in Glastonbury, Steve, have been purchasing health ... Read More

Small, midsized businesses fear they can’t afford health insurance

AUSTIN, Texas, Aug. 20, 2025 -- eHealth, Inc. today released new research showing most small- to mid-sized employers are worried about being able to afford offering health benefits in the future, ... Read More

Can ICHRAs Fill Small Businesses’ Health Coverage Gaps?

Small to mid-size employers are facing a crisis of health care coverage, according to a recent survey by the insurance company eHealth Inc. A large majority (89%) of these employers said they were ... Read More

Missouri workers can bet on paying more for health insurance next year

MISSOURI, USA — Tania Hewett-Mader, who owns Alma Mader Brewing with her husband, believes providing health benefits to her employees is the right thing to do. “That’s part of our values — taking good ... Read More

Helping North Carolinians, small businesses with health insurance

Chamber and Blue Cross in N.C. to announce a new kind of health insurance policy that will be available to small businesses and their employees. The new plan, the first of its kind in North Carolina, ... Read More

Small businesses, self-employed brace for sharp health insurance premium spikes

The big budget bill that President Donald Trump signed into law in July allowed tax credits under the Affordable Care Act to expire. That means health insurance costs will go up significantly for ... Read More

A new plan aims to help NC small business owners and their employees with health insurance

Small business owners and their employees have often struggled with affordable health insurance. This plan could change that. Read More

Durango businesses, health care advocates worry about insurance spikes

With enhanced Affordable Care Act subsidies set to expire at the end of the year, some small businesses and health care advocates in Durango are worried about the prospect of increasing insurance ... Read More

Health Insurance Costs for Businesses to Rise by Most in 15 Years

U.S. businesses are facing the biggest health-insurance cost increases in at least 15 years, after already-steep boosts in recent years that have pushed the annual expense for family coverage high ... Read More

Opinion: Small businesses are caught in the crosshairs of the health care standoff

Ten years ago, I moved to Anchorage and started working for myself full time, helping families move their homes, apartments and offices. Up until that point, I had never taken the leap to ... Read More

The workers whose health care is most at stake in the government shutdown

They are restaurateurs and beauticians, landscapers and mediators, chiropractors and funeral directors. They are freelancers, contractors and gig workers. And they now find themselves stuck in the ... Read More