Due to the Affordable Care Acts employer mandate, benefit experts argue that employers across the country should consider skinny plans the barebones, minimum essential health coverage option in order to cover their full-time workforce, and not break the bank.
In lieu of paying the ACAs hefty fines, such as the $2,000-per employee nuclear penalty, McDermott Will & Emery attorneys say that employers are pondering a calculated gamble by offering skinny plans to satisfy the ACAs employer mandate.
