While the White House has stated that the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) will enable Americans to do more with their employee benefits, their assertions have done little to quell consumers’ retirement concerns.
While many small businesses may already be providing employee benefits for their workers, more than half of them are less than confident in how these plans will be affected by the time the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) is put in place.
Senate Republicans recently issued a caution and warning to the country’s women, stating that the implementation of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act will have a particularly harsh impact on them.
Many business owners have indicated that they won’t know what to make of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act until it’s gone into effect, as a variety of factors will serve as the determinant of whether it improves or worsens the employee benefits they offer. But when it comes to consumers in general, the overriding determination of the law being a net positive or negative is if it makes their healthcare less costly.
Even though the majority of Americans who are insured are covered through their employee health benefits, millions people remain uninsured, prompting states to spend a considerable amount of money to help these individuals sign up for coverage before the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) goes into effect.
With trepidation manifested by many business owners, wary of how the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act will impact their employee benefits offerings, large health insurers are similarly leery of whether they want to join the health insurance exchanges being set up by the government and states.
As business owners contemplate how the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act will affect their employee benefit offerings, the federal government has released an easy-to-read, short application that people who are uninsured will be able to fill out requesting coverage.
As business owners grapple with how the implementation of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) will affect their employee benefits offerings, there are specific provisions within the law that may have more of an impact on their bottom line than others.
According to Politico, a full-fledged marketing campaign championing the ACA has yet to be put into place. However, once it is, the White House and its allies say the general public will gain a greater appreciation for what the reform law will provide them with.
A leading official in the U.S. House of Representatives has expressed some concern as to how the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) will be paid for when its next round of mandates go into effect in January 2014.
