Brokers who have scrambled for the past year to ensure their employer clients are compliant with the Affordable Care Act’s employer mandate, also known in the industry as the “pay or play” mandate, are scrambling once again, to take a deep breath.
For Mark Gaunya, principal at Borislow Insurance and EBA advisory board member, some of his new business clients were behind in preparations. “We have quite a few prospects that need our assistance and time was running short to help all of them,” Gaunya says. “Perhaps now with the delay, we will be able to help more of them and maybe, just maybe, make some tweaks to the law to make it less painful and irrationally tilted toward government over reach.”
