In a clear indication of how much the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act has drawn the focus of employers and HR personnel, a talk from Alston & Bird’s John Hickman called “Health Reform: Fall 2012 Edition” had attendees standing in the wings to listen once it appeared that seats had run out. Pens furiously scratched at pads and fingertips hopscotched on tablets as Hickman laid out many of the ways – no longer escapable – that PPACA will change how health benefits are administered and run.
“Everything stays,” Hickman says of this year’s Supreme Court decision ruling the law constitutional. “Well, it made the decision easy, it didn’t make life easy.”
