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Health Insurance let the threshold discourage him if he needs to make additional hires to support his business making parts for Flexographic printing presses. ���If we have opportunities for growth, I am not going to let the 50-employee rule influence me,��� Re says. Cap Wulf, president of Wulf Brothers Heating and Cooling in Sturgeon Bay, fears Obamacare will raise the private companies��� health insurance costs to the level that unionized public employees get. ���A public employee���s health insurance is approaching $20,000 a year while my employee costs are around $9,000,��� he says. Those costs include broad coverage options including vision and dental. ���Our insurance will go up because the government keeps adding more requirements,��� Wulf says. ���The government will blame the insurance ���It���s not changing how we do business. We provide pretty good insurance to our people anyway. We are at about 45 employees, but I wouldn���t base a hiring decision on staying under 50.��� ���Eric Blankenheim, Blankenheim S er vices companies, but if the (insurance companies) have to cover people with pre-existing conditions, their costs are going to go way up.��� While Obamacare has not fully affected people yet, Wulf is concerned that the secretary of Health and Human Services has yet to determine and define many details of the law. If companies are going to keep their health care plans affordable, they will need to take a more aggressive approach to controlling costs, says John Torinus, chairman of Serigraph in West Bend, and author of the book ���The Company That Solved Health Care: How Serigraph Dramatically Reduced Skyrocketing Costs While Providing Better Care and How Every Company Can Do the Same.��� Torinus has a second book scheduled for publication in June. With more than 1,000 employees, Serigraph is far beyond the breakpoint Introducing Prevea360 Better benefits. Lower premiums. Real business solutions. Prevea360 is a better kind of health plan. It���s a true collaboration of trusted health care and insurance experts that drives unnecessary costs out of the entire health care process. And because Prevea360 was developed by and for the people of Northeast Wisconsin and the Lakeshore, resources are reinvested locally to continue improving health care right here at home. To see how much you could save call 1-877-230-7615 or visit prevea360.com. Underwritten by Dean Health Plan, Inc. 30 | Insight ��� A p r i l 2 013 w w w. i n s i g h t o n b u s i n e s s . c o m