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Article: Most Small Business Owners in First Survey of Its Kind by NAPEO Offer Health Benefits but Oppose Government Mandating Them.
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- Business Wire
- Article date:
- December 4, 2006
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ALEXANDRIA, Va. -- A majority of owners of small businesses in a new survey say they oppose government requiring them to offer health benefits, but most already do, bucking the national trend in the small business community.
More than 700 small-business owners served by professional employer organizations, or PEOs, responded to the November survey by the National Association of Professional Employer Organizations, or NAPEO.
The amount of companies in the survey that offer benefits - 95 percent -- is unusually high, because soaring costs make benefits especially hard for small businesses to afford. (Fewer than half of American companies with less than 10 ...