Even though the employee benefits mandate has been put off until 2015, a substantial number of business owners cite the Affordable Care Act as one of the reasons why they’ll be hiring with some degree of caution in 2014, according to a new poll.
A new report suggests that repealing the ACA could adversely affect some of the nation’s people most in need of coverage – single moms.
If recent polling data is reflective of society at large, a substantial number of people with employee benefits will choose a plan this year that’s not as comprehensive as what their workplace provided last year in order to keep their premium costs in affordable territory.
According to a recent report from the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, the navigator program has been badly mismanaged, so much so that consumers’ have often been encouraged to lie about certain financial characteristics in order to pad a claim or application.
Approximately 80 percent of consumers who have health insurance from their employer said that they expect their policy structure to look different at some point in the next 12 months, according to a recent poll performed by The Associated Press and polling firm GfK.
With insurance plans secured through the federal or state-based exchanges set to go into effect on Jan. 1, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services says it’s redoubling its efforts to ensure that anyone who was once without employee benefits will have a private plan to fall back on starting the first day of 2014.
Though business executives have always spent much of their time on improving employee benefits for their workers, in the past two years, their occupation with these components of their company has risen considerably.
In an effort to increase the pace with which individuals without employee benefits can obtain coverage, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services says that it’s awarding the nation’s approximately 1,160 health centers with more financial assistance so that they can handle the increased flow of applicants.
More than two months removed from the enrollment launch of the Affordable Care Act and thousands of stories later chronicling the problem plagued rollout of HealthCare.gov, confusion still reigns supreme among many consumers about how the reform law works and what it means to them.
A substantially larger number of consumers selected a health plan through either the federal or a state-based exchange in November than did in October, the first month in which the enrollment period for the Affordable Care Act went into effect.
