Benefits Think News You Can Use: Reform bills would force employers to cover dietary counseling for 27-year-old dependents

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I admit, I’m just not going to read the more than 2,000 pages that are the House and Senate health care reform bills. Maybe it’s the environmentalist in me, or maybe it’s the knowledge that much of what I read would make me mad.

However, thanks to my many sources who — bless them — have read the bills in their entirety, I can gain valuable info that pacifies my inner greenie but unfortunately still gets under my skin. The latest nuggets come courtesy of Spencer’s Benefits Reports, which combed through H.R. 3962 (the bill passed last month in the House) and H.R. 3590 (the Senate’s stab at reform), and found some particularly jagged little pills for employers. Among them, SBR sussed out that H.R. 3950 would require employers to cover (at 100%, mind you):


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