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Benefits in the News > By Subject > Health plans - policy Now Viewing Recent Headlines View Excerpts and Recent Headlines 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) [Opinion] USCCB Submits Comments on Proposed HHS Rulemaking, Urges Re-Opening of Final Rule Defining Mandate, Exemption GOP Prepares Reform Plan for Ruling on Health Law [Official Guidance] Text of IRS Notice of Meeting of Advisory Group for the Tax Exempt and Government Entities Division (PDF) How Does Health Reform Affect Rural America? Proskauer ERISA Litigation Newsletter, May 2012 [Official Guidance] Text of General CCIIO Guidance on Federally-Facilitated Health Exchanges (PDF) More States Working to Implement Health Insurance Exchanges, HHS Announces Animated U.S. Map Showing Year-by-Year Increase in Obesity Among State Populations, 1985-2010 RAND Study of Effect of ACA on Enrollment and Premiums, Either With or Without the Individual Mandate (PDF) [Official Guidance] Text of Official Corrections to Final HHS Regs on Standards for Reinsurance, Risk Corridors, and Risk Adjustment (PDF) [Opinion] Looking at Single-Payor Health Care Efforts in Vermont, Montana and California Resource Page on Implementation of Health Insurance Medical Loss Ratios by the States, Updated May 11, 2012 GAO Testimony on Unemployed Older Workers Facing Long-Term Joblessness and Reduced Retirement Security Many Experience Challenges Regaining Employment and Face Reduced Retirement Security [Opinion] Provisions in Health Reform Law and Regs Will Reduce Access to Health Savings Accounts ML Strategies Health Care Reform Update, May 14, 2012 (PDF) Federal Guidance and Regulation of State Health Benefit Exchanges Arizona Now Allowing Some Religious Employers' Health Plans to Opt Out of Contraceptive Drug Coverage Mandate [Opinion] Health Care Reform: What Employers Should Be Considering Now Deloitte Health Care Reform Memo, May 14, 2012 [Opinion] Slippery-Slope Logic, As Applied to Health Care Reform Massachusetts May Impose 'Luxury Tax' on the State's Most Pricey Hospitals [Opinion] Techniques Used by Obamacare Could Support Proposed Taxation of Employer-Provided Health Care Benefits [Opinion] Why Employer-Paid Health Insurance Drives Up Health Care Costs Workplace Wellness Programs: Trends, Changes in the Law Starting in 2014, and Issues to Watch [Guidance Overview] Connecticut's Group Health Plan Would Lose Governmental Plan Status by Covering Employees of Non-Profit Contractors The Small Business Tax Credit in the ACA Is Good Business Sense [Opinion] Even If Obamacare Survives Supreme Court Scrutiny, Employers May Do It In New Jersey Governor Vetoes Health Insurance Exchange Massachusetts Politicians Taking Different Tacks Pursuing Containment of Health Care Costs [Opinion] Where's the Fire? Administration's Implementation of Health Care Regs Is Disorderly Mess Plan Management Issues for State, Partnership and Federally Facilitated Health Insurance Exchanges (PDF) Bill Introduced to Make Health Care a Right in New York State The ACA Small Business Tax Credit Makes Good Business Sense Couples Retiring in 2012 Will Need $240,000 to Pay Medical Expenses Throughout Retirement The Morning Line: Most Are Betting Health Reform Law's Mandate Will Be Thrown Out [Opinion] Time to Control Runaway Military Personnel Costs [Opinion] Innoculate the Budget Deficit from Health Care Reform In Japan, All-Payer Rate Setting Under Tight Government Control Proving to Be Effective at Containing Costs Washington State's 1993 Experiment with Health Insurance Reforms (PDF) [Opinion] How to Fix Our Enormous, Inefficient Health Care System Essential Health Benefit Packages Under Health Care Reform Have Employers Wary How Supreme Court Vote Could Affect Health Industry's Cash Flow Critics Say Health Insurance Industry Should Be Replaced by Single-Payer System House Ways and Means Panel Mulls FSA Coverage for OTC Medicines Health Care Access Already in Steady Decline for Past Decade, Could Get Worse If Health Care Reform Repealed Reinhart Employee Benefits Update, April 2012 (PDF) Health Care Reform Timeline for Employers Health Care Reform: What If They Throw the Whole Thing Out? Deloitte Health Care Reform Memo, May 7, 2012 [Opinion] The Health Care Mandate Is Clearly a Tax and Therefore Constitutional Massachusetts Lawmakers Unveil Ambitious Plan to Cut Health Care Costs Administration Might Consider Additional Federal Regulation of Use of Stop-Loss Insurance A Republican Health Reform Plan Might Look a Lot Like Obama's Five Exceptions to the Health Care Reform Law for Small Employers Potential Accounting Implications of Upcoming Supreme Court Decision on the Affordable Care Act 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. But BenefitsLink is not the author or publisher of those linked pages (except as expressly indicated). You should contact directly the author of any such linked pages for copyright or other information about their contents. 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