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Benefits in the News > By Subject > Health plans - mandated benefits Now Viewing Recent Headlines View Excerpts and Recent Headlines [Guidance Overview] Chart of State Domestic Partner and Same-Sex Marriage Laws as of May 10, 2012 Health Tax Credit Could Mean Big Savings for Small Firms [Opinion] Text of Memo to Republicans on Status of Congressional Investigation on Obamacare Negotiations with Drug Makers (PDF) Probe Continues Into Reform Law Dealings Between White House and Pharmaceutical Manufacturers MLR Killing Off Business, Hurting Consumers Individual Insurance Benefits Becoming Available Under Health Care Reform Would Have Cut Out-Of-Pocket Spending In 2001-08 HHS Finalizes Requirement to Notify Consumers When MLR Spending Targets Met [Opinion] USCCB Submits Comments on Proposed HHS Rulemaking, Urges Re-Opening of Final Rule Defining Mandate, Exemption RAND Study of Effect of ACA on Enrollment and Premiums, Either With or Without the Individual Mandate (PDF) Arizona Now Allowing Some Religious Employers' Health Plans to Opt Out of Contraceptive Drug Coverage Mandate [Opinion] Slippery-Slope Logic, As Applied to Health Care Reform Massachusetts May Impose 'Luxury Tax' on the State's Most Pricey Hospitals Massachusetts Politicians Taking Different Tacks Pursuing Containment of Health Care Costs [Opinion] The Health Care Mandate Is Clearly a Tax and Therefore Constitutional Obamacare Collapse Would Put Employers Back in Charge of Controlling Health Costs Is Acupuncture an 'Essential Health Benefit'? California Moves Closer to Setting Health Insurance Standards [Opinion] Waiting for Final Mental Health Parity Regs [Opinion] Health Care Reform Implementation: The Colorado Example New ACA Streamlining Requirement Will Cost Insurance Plans, But Benefit Medical Providers [Guidance Overview] Proposed HHS Regs Address Health Plan Identifiers and Delay Compliance Date for Use of Standardized Billing Codes [Opinion] Report Claming Higher Cost for Health Care Reform is Bogus Attack Misconceptions Seen in Responses of Supreme Court Justices at Oral Arguments White House Blasts Obama-Appointed Republican Health Care Economist [Opinion] Official Federal Government Sources Agree: The Affordable Care Act Reduces the Deficit 2011 State Laws Implementing Immediate Market Health Reforms [Opinion] The Individual Mandate and the Math-less Health Reform Debate [Guidance Overview] 2012 List of Counties Requiring Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services Issued by HHS [Guidance Overview] HHS Releases Final Rules Regarding Transitional Reinsurance Program (PDF) [Guidance Overview] ML Strategies Health Care Reform Update, April 9, 2012 (PDF) Obama Health Care Law Could Worsen U.S. Debt, Says Republican Study Health Care Reform Law Will Add $340 Billion to Deficit, Study Says [Opinion] How to Replace Obamacare Employers Should Not Delay Preparing for 2014 Health Care Reform Requirements Despite Pending Supreme Court Case (PDF) Deloitte's Health Care Reform Memo: April 9, 2012 [Opinion] Much Ado About Broccoli [Opinion] What Private Markets Could Do on the Day After Obamacare, If Regulatory Burdens Were Lifted The Fact Checker: President Obama's Selective Memory of Supreme Court History Supreme Court Hears Oral Arguments on Health Care Reform: Will the Affordable Care Act Survive? Milliman's Monthly Benefit News and Developments, April 2012 (PDF) [Guidance Overview] Regulations Clarify Summary of Benefits and Coverage Chasing the Carrot, Not Running from the Whip: Obamacare Can Live Even If the Mandate Dies Estimating the Impact of the Medical Loss Ratio Rule: A State-by-State Analysis Catholic University in Ohio to End Contraceptive Coverage Text of Comments by American Academy of Actuaries on HHS-Proposed 'Actuarial Value Calculator' (PDF) Can Health Care Reform Survive Without the Individual Mandate? In a Nutshell: Supreme Court Oral Arguments About the Affordable Care Act Beyond the Affordable Care Act: An Economic Analysis of a Unified System of Health Care for Minnesota Transforming Our Health Care System Is Not Going to Be Easy, But It Is Necessary Federal Judge Takes U.S. Attorney to Task Over Obama's Comments on Supreme Court's Jurisdiction to Review Health Care Law Supplemental Group Health Insurance Benefit Strategies for Retirees Wrap-Up on Constitutional Challenges to the ACA Public Support for Individual Mandate Is Low, But Study Says It Would Affect Few, Stabilize Insurance Market Why Health Care Isn't Broccoli: Some Basic Economics A Summary of the Oral Arguments in the Supreme Court Review of the Affordable Care Act (PDF) Public Employers and Health Insurance Exchanges: A Shift in the Landscape (PDF) [Opinion] Individual Mandate vs. 'Do Not Treat' Michigan Law Will Require Michigan Health Insurers to Provide Autism Disorder Benefits Remedies for 'Sick Insurance' -- How Prior Legislative Regulation of Health Insurance Might Predict Chances of Insurance Exchanges Succeeding Sense of Peril for Health Law Gives Insurers Pause Important word about authorship: BenefitsLink® (BenefitsLink.com) provides this page for you, containing selected hypertext links to pages on the web that our editors think will be useful or interesting to you. 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