43% - The cost of our existing insurance has increased because of Obamacare.

3% - Our new policy is not as good as the one we had before Obamacare.

When we asked recently what the big challenges for small businesses were, Obamacare was no higher than third on a list of five. So it didn’t surprise me when 43% of our respondents to last week’s poll said Obamacare has had no negative impact on them. But that still leaves more than half who have been negatively impacted. And I fear that many of the first 43% will have a different story in about a year when the employer mandate goes into effect.

Obamacare is bad policy, it’s a bad law, it’s bad for the U.S. healthcare system, it’s bad for the economy, and it’s going to continue to be bad for most small businesses.