The Hill News

The Supreme Court has now completed its three days of hearing on provisions within the Affordable Care Act (ACA), or “Obamacare” as even the president’s reelection campaign is now calling it. Opponents of the ACA will continue their public relations campaign to influence public opinion with hopes that their efforts will even shape the eventual decision by individual Justices.

Therefore it is important that ACA supporters like the American Sustainable Business Council (ASBC) continue to educate the public, and possibly other interested parties, on the negative consequences to small businesses of a successful repeal effort by organizations like the National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB), which joined 26 states in filing the court case against the ACA.

While the ACA is only two years old, the benefits to small businesses, as well as citizens in general, have been very sizable. While “repeal” business groups like the NFIB say that they are re! presenting business interests in their efforts, it is clear that those interests are not those of small businesses.

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