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Ranking Small Business Resistance Criteria Toward The Affordable Care Act, Rakesh M K Gupta
Ranking Small Business Resistance Criteria Toward The Affordable Care Act, Rakesh M K Gupta
Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies
Following the enactment of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) in 2010, politicians, media, and lobbyists rendered a number of conflicting and confusing interpretations of its merits and demerits. Such interpretations intensified the skepticism and concerns of small business enterprise (SBE) owners. The purpose of this study was to develop a representative, prioritized list of SBE owners' concerns or resistance factors. The goal was to create a useful guide for SBE owners who are seeking ways to reducing the adverse financial impact of the law. With social choice theory as the theoretical framework, 50 randomly selected SBE owners across 5 distinct …