Association head says Obamacare has benefits for the self-employed

By Tim Gallen|Phoenix Business Journal

Along with about 22 million people nationwide, nearly 380,000 Arizonans are self-employed, and they will all see an impact from the Affordable Care Act when the law goes into full effect next year.

Kristie Arslan, president and CEO of the National Association for the Self-Employed, was in Phoenix earlier this week speaking at the Direct Selling Association Conference. She spared a few minutes following her presentation to speak with me about some of the issues that the self-employed will face under the new health care reform law known as Obamacare.

One positive for the self-employed under the ACA, Arslan said, will be the expanded choices of insurance options, as well as the mandate that insurance companies cannot deny coverage.

“The self-employed have long been at the mercy of the insurance underwriting process,” Arslan said. “So many people venture into self-employed later in life and usually at a time when, on paper, health insurance companies think they might be a bit risky health-wise.”

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