Health Care Act: Navigating Obamacare

Wong notes that given printers' razor-thin profit margins, they may actually benefit from paying the penalty, depending upon one's current insurance plan, employee cost, printer's cost and wages.

"Metzgers, like all companies, is going to have to decide what to do with employees who are working more than 30 hours a week that they might not have previously offered health insurance to," Wong notes. "The most popular options are to hire employees to work 40 hours a week or less than 30 hours a week, or just hire more employees working less than 30 hours a week so you don't have to offer health insurance." PI