Kiersten Firquain founded Bistro Kids in Kansas City, KS, seven years ago to provide locally sourced organic �kid-friendly� food to as many students as possible. While her chefs were cooking up healthy food for youngsters, she wanted to do something for her employees� health. The health care law tax credit for small businesses, she says, made it possible to offer them health insurance.
�We talked to our chefs and employees and asked, �What�s something you would like from Bistro Kids?� And one of the things that kept coming up was insurance,� Kiersten says.
Bistro Kids qualified for about $1,500 per year in tax credits under the health care law, the Affordable Care Act, which made a huge difference to a small business like hers. For one of her chefs, Kiersten says, health insurance means a $5 co-pay for a prescription instead of a $250 cost, which her chef would not have been able to afford.
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�The small business tax credit means that we can take care of our employees. It means they can walk into a pharmacy and know they can afford to pay for medication to take care of themselves,� Kiersten says. �For us, the small business tax credit means being able to take care of our chefs and our employees so they can take care of our clients.�
The health care law�s tax credit for small businesses also helps Kiersten to compete for the best employees�and that means a more successful business.
�Everybody wants to have the best employees that they can have. Our chefs are phenomenal, the best in the industry, and because of the health care tax credit, we�re able to offer them benefits that they might not be able to get somewhere else.�
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