With employee benefits in the news lately given the delay of the employer mandate, Automatic Data Processing recently released a report detailing key trends in what health benefits businesses have offered to their workforce, as well as information on whether these employees have been eligible to receive them.
House Majority Leader Rep. John Boehner recently produced a letter sent to the White House, questioning whether the individual mandate should stay in place.
Even though the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act hasn’t fully gone into place as of yet, the White House has spent nearly $4 billion on creating the system needed to have it in place.
To help put individuals’ minds at ease, Medicare and Medicaid Services administrator Marilyn Tavenner recently noted that the appropriate safeguards are still in place and should prevent deceptive practices.
National polling data shows that many business owners are pleased that the employer mandate penalty is being delayed 12 months. And this sentiment appears to be widespread in Montana, one of the country’s most robust economies.
On the heels of the employer mandate postponement – where large employers won’t be fined for failing to provide employee benefits to their workers until January 2015 – the White House recently announced another delay that will affect both employers and consumers.
Health experts chronicle how the healthcare law has had a litany of delays and postponements since the bill was signed into law in March 2010.
Critics of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act have used the delay as an opportunity to pounce on the health reform law.
