Actually ACA helps small business a lot.
For example, ACA allows 100% tax credit for small businesses, with 25 or less employees, that provide health insurance. In other words, they can apply their health insurance cost toward their taxes meaning health insurance cost them nothing. After 25 employees, a business goes on a gradual sliding scale until the credit is reduced to 0.
Read about it and other things the ACA provides small business in this tax firm PDF:
http://api.ning.com/files/i*wxtQyUP...ealthReformAct_ObamaCareWebinarPowerpoint.pdf