(Bloomberg) Enrollment in Obamacare health plans for small businesses is off to a slow start, leaving in doubt whether the U.S. program can attract enough customers to satisfy insurers.
Greeted by higher premiums, less generous coverage and more paperwork, small businesses that offer health coverage to employees are choosing to renew existing plans rather than buy them through President Barack Obamas program. Complicating matters is the governments failure to complete the online exchange for small businesses; in 36 states, there will be no website offering ready information on the plans until November.
