GOP health plan could pose challenges to employer reporting
The introduced AHCA includes the possibility of new state requirements and a postponement of the Cadillac tax.
Obamacare
Broker organizations plot next moves on MLR provision
Agent commissions still included as part of calculation in GOP health plan, but NAIFA, NAHU, other broker groups working to engineer a solution.
Benefits Think The ACA replacement plan is already dead
The proposed bill cuts taxes for wealthy people, ends Medicaid as we know it to help pay for those tax cuts, reduces the number of Americans who can afford health insurance, and angers such a wide variety of voting constituencies that it is effectively dead on arrival, writes Bloomberg Gadfly Columnist Max Nisen.
Max Nisen
Bloomberg Gadfly
The GOP health plan: What employers need to know
Benefit executives should have more money to invest in their health insurance offerings as Congress pushes back the Cadillac tax and cuts other ACA taxes.
Benefits Think Brokers must be logical and informative on GOP health plan
As clients’ go-to resource, advisers should provide employers with fact-based analysis of what is and is not included in ACA replacement bill, says consultant Wendy Keneipp.
Wendy Keneipp
Q4intelligence
Benefits Think GOP bill could prove costly by cutting most ACA taxes without replacements
The American Health Care Act does little to address the cost of healthcare, says adviser David C. Smith.
David C. Smith
Ebenconcepts
Benefits Think GOP bill could prove costly by cutting most ACA taxes without replacements
The American Health Care Act does little to address the cost of healthcare, says adviser David C. Smith.
David C. Smith
Ebenconcepts
Republican health bill leaves employer tax exclusion untouched
The GOP proposal to replace the ACA eliminates the individual mandate and expands the role of HSAs.
What stays and what goes in upcoming health reform
President Trump is likely to succeed in removing the employer mandate and lifting restrictions on FSAs, panelists at EBA’s Workplace Benefits Renaissance say.
Louisiana Insurance Commissioner tells advisers to stay vigilant on MLR
Jim Donelon says the ACA provision is likely to be removed under Trumpcare, but brokers should ‘keep it on their radar.’
What stays and what goes in upcoming health reform
President Trump is likely to succeed in removing the employer mandate and lifting restrictions on FSAs, panelists at EBA’s Workplace Benefits Renaissance say.
Benefits Think Employers shouldn’t throw away their Cadillac tax-mitigation report just yet
Though a repeal of the provision is still uncertain, there are steps benefits pros can take to put minds at ease.
Zack Pace
CBIZ
Benefits Think Employers shouldn’t throw away their Cadillac tax-mitigation report just yet
Though a repeal of the provision is still uncertain, there are steps benefits pros can take to put minds at ease.
Zack Pace
CBIZ
GOP Obamacare plan suffers blow with rejection by key Republican
The leader of the largest group of House conservatives said Monday he couldn’t support the party’s existing Obamacare replacement strategy.
Benefits Think 9 trends driving employee benefits in Q2 and beyond
With President Trump focused on healthcare reform and the DOL stepping up audits, advisers and employers should monitor plans closely.
Suzannah Gill
EPIC
Benefits Think Here is how Trump will change the ACA
Promises to repeal Obamacare are proving to be more complicated then they sounded on the campaign trail. With those realities setting in, Peter Orszag, President Obama’s director of the Office of Management and Budget, explores what happens next.
Peter Orszag
Lazard
Health insurers said to meet with Trump on ACA replacement
Attendees at the Monday meeting will include chief executives of some of the biggest U.S. health insurers, like UnitedHealth Group Inc., Aetna Inc., Cigna Corp., Independence Blue Cross and BlueCross BlueShield of North Carolina.
Benefits Think 9 trends driving employee benefits in Q2 and beyond
With President Trump focused on healthcare reform and the DOL stepping up audits, advisers and employers should monitor plans closely.
Suzannah Gill
EPIC
GOP Obamacare plan would cover fewer people; blowback grows
New details of the plan are beginning to emerge, which would do away with the ACA's requirement that all Americans have health coverage or pay a fine, and replace it with rules that let people choose not to buy insurance, instead paying higher premiums or penalties if they need it later.
HSA expansion could change broker-employer role
ACA replacement will most likely place a greater emphasis on health savings accounts and put employees in the driver’s seat.
