[bell-cot]

That one I'd be more sympathetic to. The fraction of GDP that America's health care sector rakes off is far out of line with other first-world economies. (And, by most metrics, their health systems deliver same-or-better results.) In effect: Any company which wants to employ actual Americans (one who'll have to get heath coverage) is forced to send huge-and-growing protection payments to America's health care system mafia.

[MajimasEyepatch]

Be that as it may, it's not like the ACA invented employer-sponsored health insurance. Health insurance is just part of the cost of doing business in the United States and has been standard for full-time employees (and many part-time ones) for decades. In this particular case, I believe he wasn't providing health insurance for anyone but was now required to because his company was over a certain size. (Something along those lines, it's been a long time.)