Kaiser Permanente

Bob Semro's piece on a survey showing that Colorado's health insurance exchange will benefit employers (Straight talk on health care reform: More small businesses likely to offer health benefits under state's exchange) was posted as part of Viewpoints on the Kaiser Health News website.

This appeared in Health Relay, the Race is on for a Healthier Colorado, an online publication of the Colorado Health Foundation.

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Bob Semro is a health care policy analyst with the Bell Policy Center, a non-partisan policy research center that advocates public policies that reflect progressive values.

Editor's note: This commentary originally appeared in Health Policy Solutions.

More small businesses say they will offer health insurance for their employees once the Colorado Health Insurance Exchange is up and running in 2014, according to a Kaiser Permanente survey of business owners.

The survey found that, after hearing a short description of the exchange, the number of employers who said they would offer health benefits to some or all employees jumped to 59 percent, up from 52 percent currently.