While employers are continuing to feel the impact from a multitude of changing laws and regulations, worries about the Affordable Care Act have begun to subside, to some degree. But the jury is out on the long-term implications of the ACA, and the ways benefits managers will live up to its stipulations in coming years.
Its not to say that employers are no longer concerned about the ACA they are and health care reform continues to be one of the most pressing issues on the minds of all employers, said Steven Friedman, co-chair of Littlers Employee Benefits Practice. However, uncertainty surrounding the ACA, as well as delays in its implementation, has [still] created confusion among employers.