Employee Benefit News

• ACA's new math

  May 1, 2013

  How technology can be used to address challenges brought by health reform and Affordable Care Act

• Employer, carrier rep grappling with ACA

  May 1, 2013

  At the 10th World Health Care Congress held just outside Washington, D.C., in April, Mark Fogel, head of HR for New York-based accounting firm Marcum Group, said his organization is still "grappling" with what to do about the Affordable Care Act and the new world for employers.

• Embrace the DC trend

  May 1, 2013

  In the new world of "Obamacare," a.k.a. the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, the birth of the insurance exchange is propelling us all the way back to the future.

On Your Radar

• Five possible GOP maneuvers to untrack health care reform

  January 1, 2011

  Flush with victory from last November's midterm election, Republican strategists are delving into possible measures to repeal or significantly hamper existing health care reform legislation.

• Taking health care reform in stride

  January 1, 2011

  Without a doubt, many of us working deep in the weeds of our organization's health plans are wary of the ever-mounting regulations surrounding health care reform. Recently, I attended a presentation that included a flowchart of implementation dates that looked sort of like a MapQuest depiction of lower Manhattan.

• Va. court decision sets stage for PPACA Supreme Court battle

  December 14, 2010

  As the first ruling in federal court to declare a portion of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act unconstitutional, Virginia Judge Henry Hudson’s Dec. 13 finding that the individual mandate provision falls outside "constitutional boundaries” puts a kink in the armor of President Barack Obama’s health reform package — but the battle over PPACA is just beginning.

PPACA Interactive Timeline

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