Supreme Court and PPACA: Brokers want immediate action

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Employee benefit brokers and advisers are paying close attention to the proceedings as the Supreme Court takes up an historic test of whether health reform is valid under the country’s Constitution.

Tom Schuetz, co-president of Group Services Inc., in Bettendorf, Iowa, doesn’t remember an issue that has drawn as much interest into the affairs of the Supreme Court as this one. Two years after President Barack Obama signed into law the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Schuetz is particularly concerned about what potentially upholding the individual mandate may imply about the level of government control on our lives.


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