While most state citizens have been positive about the creation of mandatory universal health insurance in Massachusetts one group, small business owners, have been concerned that group health insurance costs will be too expensive for them to offer coverage to all their employees.

Many employers can't afford to offer group health insurance policies to their workers, because Massachusetts health plans have risen at least 10% in the last seven years.

According to the article at Boston.com, Massachusetts' per capita spending on health care is among the highest of any state in the country, a fact that's been putting the squeeze on business owners.

In an effort to balance out the costs of a more extensive state health insurance plan, and the burden of high group health insurance costs on business owners, the Coalition for Affordable Health Care said it will work to control the size of the contributions applied to employers, and prevent a large portion of the expenses from being shifted to small business owners.