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An Obamacare Remedy For Some (But Not All) Small Businesses Without Exchange Access

The Obama administration has introduced another temporary fix for the troubled rollout of the health care law, granting special access to tax breaks for some — but not all — small firms that are not served by the new government-run health insurance marketplace.

Treasury Department officials recently announced that tax credits available to firms that buy coverage through the government’s new health care exchanges will also be made available to employers who buy insurance through the private market, but only in certain counties of Wisconsin and Washington state, where not a single insurance company elected to sell small-business plans through Healthcare.gov.

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