The Affordable Care Act: Current Implementation Issues for EmployersJonesDay
The Affordable Care Act (ACA), also known as Obamacare, has brought significant changes to the healthcare system in the United States. It aimed to improve access to quality healthcare and make it more affordable for millions of Americans. There areseveral essential benefits of ACAthat have had...
On March 30, Judge Reed O’Connor of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas issued adecisioninBraidwood Management Inc. v. Becerra (“Braidwood”), invalidating the Affordable Care Act’s (“ACA’s”) mandate requiring health plans and health insurers offering health insur...
Your status as an ALE is determined each calendar year, based on the number of employees working for you. Under theAffordable Care Act, a full-time employee works 30 hours or more per week, and 50 full-time workers qualifies as an ALE. Part-time workers' hours are combined to ...
Health care is suddenly front and center in the final sprint to the presidential election, and the outcome will shape the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and the coverage it gives to more than40 million people. Besides reproductive rights, health care for most of the campaign ...
The Affordable Care Act was signed into law in March of 2010. | image credit: Svetlana / stock.adobe.com Challenges to the ACA The law, however, was not without controversy. Almost as soon as it was passed, states began to sue the federal government, arguing they could not mandate expans...
Supreme Court's ruling upholding the majority of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA), three urology groups issued a joint statement philosophically supporting the concept of universal health care but expressing concern about certain provisions of the ACA. Specifically, the ACA's ...
Since its enactment, some health care providers have struggled to meet the Act's current deadlines, while others questioned if they should test new care delivery methods in anticipation of the apparent movement away from a pure fee-for-service system. When it was clear that the...
Why You Should Pay Close Attention To The Affordable Health Care Act You’re paying for it with your tax dollars. You may need it someday. Current affordable health care initiatives do not address what’s causing U.S. health care issues. ...
signed into law the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act ("PPACA"; P.L. 111–148, 124 Stat. 119), and its companion amendment, the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010 ("HCERA"; P.L. 111-152, 124 Stat. 1029), (collectively, the "Affordable Care Act" or "ACA...