$40 billion

Small-business savings via tax credits, by 2019, from the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010

Congressional Budget Office

96%

Percentage of U.S. businesses with fewer than 50 employees and exemption from the law’s coverage requirement

Bloomberg Business Week

$4,717

Average annual premium for a single policy in companies with 3 to 199 employees

Kaiser Family Foundation

14.5%/18.3%

Unionization rates in the construction industry, 2009 and 2000, respectively

Bureau of Labor Statistics