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Health Insurance Expenses Create Dilemma for Wisconsin Small Firms.

By Joe Manning, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Apr. 15--Many Wisconsin small business owners are increasingly facing a gut-wrenching choice: eliminate health insurance coverage for their workers or accept the consequences of absorbing skyrocketing premium costs.

Former New Glarus Bakery owner Nancy Potter faced just such a decision earlier this year.

She decided, reluctantly, to drop health insurance coverage for her 11 employees when she faced a premium increase of 160 percent . "For a small business, that increase was prohibitive," she said.

"It's a crisis," Potter added. "Most employers would like to do what they can for ...

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