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Health care reform law protects employees from employment retaliation

USA Healthcare News — Sat, 02 Mar 2013 00:06:27 +0000

Health care reform law protects employees from employment retaliation
Lexology (registration)
Employers gearing up for full implementation of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 (“ACA”) in 2014 should keep in mind section 18C of the Fair Labor Standards Act (“FLSA”), as added by the ACA. This provision protects employees …
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Proposed reform-law insurance tax rules issued

USA Healthcare News — Fri, 01 Mar 2013 22:32:13 +0000

Proposed reform-law insurance tax rules issued
ModernHealthcare.com
The Obama administration has proposed rules implementing a health insurance premium tax to help fund the healthcare reform law, even as health insurers and Republicans continued a push to kill it. The health insurance tax (PDF) is expected to collect …

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Questions still swirl around health care reform

USA Healthcare News — Fri, 01 Mar 2013 21:46:14 +0000

Questions still swirl around health care reform
Colorado Springs Gazette
Congress in 2010 established that all employees working 30 hours per week, or 120 hours per month, are to be part of the calculation that determines who is eligible for health care coverage, Smythe said. Before the law, it was up to employers to decide …

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18 Takes Washington: Talking highways and health care

USA Healthcare News — Fri, 01 Mar 2013 20:27:46 +0000

18 Takes Washington: Talking highways and health care
WLFI.com
The second expert updated the group on health care policy and the Chamber's efforts to repeal parts of the healthcare reform laws to help small businesses. “It was disappointment today because I think there's not much happening in transportation and …

Health care reform will be focus of regional summit

USA Healthcare News — Fri, 01 Mar 2013 20:07:02 +0000

Health care reform will be focus of regional summit
Elkhart Truth
SOUTH BEND — Federal health care reform will be the topic of the seventh annual Human Capital Summit put on by Gibson Insurance. The summit, which is free, will happen March 14 at the Hilton Garden Inn's Gillespie Conference Center in South Bend.

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More than 700 pages of healthcare rules released

USA Healthcare News — Fri, 01 Mar 2013 18:36:21 +0000

More than 700 pages of healthcare rules released
The Hill (blog)
Three of the regulations are final and roll out the multistate healthcare exchanges and reforms to the insurance market, including provisions to encourage cost-sharing, stabilize health insurance premiums and prevent providers from denying coverage.

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This week in Washington: New health insurance requirement for retailers …

USA Healthcare News — Fri, 01 Mar 2013 13:38:12 +0000

This week in Washington: New health insurance requirement for retailers …
National Retail Federation (blog) (press release)
Along with other materials, it will help workers choose among the coverage options that will be available when the new federal health care reform law takes effect. NRF told a Senate committee this week that the new documents “can be helpful tools …

Maine's Health Insurance Reform is Showing Positive Impact

USA Healthcare News — Fri, 01 Mar 2013 13:26:37 +0000

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Maine's Health Insurance Reform is Showing Positive Impact
Bangor Daily News
The Center for Health Reform Initiatives, a project of the Maine Heritage Policy Center, has released a new study on Maine's health care reform law (PL90), Crisis to Cure: Maine's Health Care Reform Law is Helping Business. In the study, health care …

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Students, Congressmembers Call for UC Healthcare Reform

USA Healthcare News — Fri, 01 Mar 2013 13:16:35 +0000

Students, Congressmembers Call for UC Healthcare Reform
Daily Nexus
As a self-funded insurance plan, UC SHIP is precluded from a ban on health insurance caps mandated by the U.S. Affordable Care Act. However, over 7,000 students have signed a petition calling for the cap's removal after a story surfaced about a UC …

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How health care reform is driving employers to self-fund their plans

USA Healthcare News — Fri, 01 Mar 2013 12:26:02 +0000

How health care reform is driving employers to self-fund their plans
Smart Business Network
To avoid elements of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) adversely affecting fully insured health plans, growing numbers of employers — especially smaller ones — are self-funding their plans. “The problem is that everybody has been …

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