Solo owner
You're an individual buyer with the self-employed deduction. Price both markets.
You plus one
A spouse on payroll or one W-2 employee opens guaranteed-issue small-group coverage. Often the answer when one person has a condition.
3–50 employees
Level-funded and traditional group plans, deductible to the business. Under 50 there's no mandate to offer coverage. Texas has the highest uninsured rate in the country, and because Medicaid wasn't expanded, adults under the poverty line fall into a coverage gap with no subsidy at all.