President Obama has signed into law health reform legislation that brings down health care costs for American families and small businesses, expands coverage to millions of Americans and ends the worst practices of insurance companies. And it begins to do so this year.

Learn more about how health care reform will benefit your small business, employees and their families:

Six Ways Health Reform will Help Small Businesses

Small businesses want to provide health coverage for their workers, but they face extraordinary challenges to doing so, including premiums that are 18 percent higher on average than large businesses pay for the same coverage. Health reform legislation signed by the President includes a number of important benefits to help make coverage more affordable. Learn more.

Small Business Health Care Tax Credit

Health reform legislation signed by President Obama includes a Small Business Health Care Tax Credit to help small businesses afford the cost of covering their workers. Learn more.

Visit the IRS Website to learn more about eligibility rules and to review frequently asked questions.

Small Business Health Care Tax Credit: Four Cases

Learn how four hypothetical businesses might benefit from the Small Business Health Care Tax credit under health care reform.  Learn more.

Webcast Event

SBA Administrator Karen Mills and Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius participated in a Q&A session on understanding the new health insurance reform law and its benefits for small businesses. This was the first of several regular Webcasts at www.HealthReform.gov that will cover the overall benefits and implementation of the new law.

The new law offers many tools to help small business owners access more affordable health insurance options for their employees. These tools include the creation of 50 state exchanges that will allow small business owners to access affordable health insurance plans for their employees, as well as new tax credits to help pay for this coverage.

For more information about the session and to learn more about health reform, visit www.HealthReform.gov.