Cadillac tax, state waivers could resurface with Senate ACA subsidies agreement
Changes that would make it easier to get waivers have the potential to create chaos for companies that operate in more than one region.
AHCA
Senator says deal is reached on package of fixes for ACA
Senator Lamar Alexander said a bipartisan deal has been reached on a package of fixes to stabilize the Affordable Care Act.
Benefits Think Trump order calls for expanded HRA funding, but are employers on board?
Companies have consistently rejected the idea of terminating their health plans and sending employees to buy their own coverage, but attitudes may be shifting.
Tracy Watts
Mercer
Benefits Think Rolling back small group restrictions, Trump brings us back to the Wild West
Last week’s executive order may unleash a chaotic landscape where employers, employees and advisers don’t understand the new rules.
Eric Helman
Hodges-Mace
Benefits Think Trump order calls for expanded HRA funding, but are employers on board?
Companies have consistently rejected the idea of terminating their health plans and sending employees to buy their own coverage, but attitudes may be shifting.
Tracy Watts
Mercer
Benefits Think Rolling back small group restrictions, Trump brings us back to the Wild West
Last week’s executive order may unleash a chaotic landscape where employers, employees and advisers don’t understand the new rules.
Eric Helman
Hodges-Mace
ACA insurers, states rush to react to Trump’s latest move
States regulators and health insurers are rushing to react to the latest move by the Trump administration to dismantle parts of the Affordable Care Act.
Trump moves ‘step by step’ to dismantle the ACA
The president says he is moving on his own to remake the U.S. health care system because Congress won’t act on his demand to repeal Obamacare.
Trump exec order: Potential benefits for employers but questions remain
Putting the president’s recommendations into practice will likely take time and association plans come with the potential for abuse.
Benefits Think 5 key benefit areas affected by Trump’s executive order
A look at how the president’s action could change HRAs, medical plans and other benefits.
Cole Harris
CBIZ Insurance Services
Trump threatens ACA chaos as he halts insurer subsidy
The administration took its most drastic step yet to roll back Obamacare, cutting off a subsidy to insurers hours after issuing an executive order designed to draw people away from the health law’s markets.
Benefits Think Trump order expands employer ability to offer HRAs
Health Reimbursement Arrangements are poised to become an even more attractive option to flexibly fund employee healthcare costs, says attorney Harrison Stone.
Harrison Stone
General Counsel
Trump curbing Obamacare’s birth control coverage
The Trump administration will let employers opt out of providing health plans that cover birth control, weakening a requirement put in place by the ACA as part of a wider push to expand religious freedom.
A new way to control health cost
Thanks to an internal platform that monitors plan activity and a knack for risk pooling clients such as schools, the Pennsylvania brokerage acts swiftly to adjust health plan strategy
With Graham-Cassidy dead, employers look to more modest reforms
Repealing or delaying the Cadillac tax remains the top legislative priority for many employer organizations.
Senators nearing bipartisan deal to stabilize ACA markets
Senators are nearing a deal on a bipartisan package to help stabilize the Affordable Care Act’s individual insurance markets.
With Graham-Cassidy dead, employers look to more modest reforms
Repealing or delaying the Cadillac tax remains the top legislative priority for many employer organizations.
Benefits Think Improving the ACA: What’s on employers’ wish list
The Graham-Cassidy repeal bill is dead this week, but benefits executives are banking on Affordable Care Act improvements, including elimination of the Cadillac tax and a bigger focus on controlling healthcare costs.
John Barkett
Willis Towers Watson
Senate GOP kills healthcare bill
Senate Republicans gave up on their last-ditch proposal to repeal the ACA Tuesday as opposition in their own ranks ended months of fruitless efforts to gut it.
GOP revises ACA repeal bill likely headed for defeat
Senators sponsoring a last-ditch ACA repeal bill scrambled to save it from near-certain death Sunday, circulating a new version aimed at winning over several GOP holdouts.
