"Employers will have difficult decisions to make following the Supreme Court's June 28 ruling to uphold most of the 2010 federal health care system overhaul, especially about whether employers can avoid costly pay-or-play penalties under regulations still being drafted, employee benefit attorneys told BNA. The lack of final regulations on major provisions of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, including ones implementing employer penalties under tax code Section 4980H, means that many employers do not yet see clearly how they might restructure their employee benefits or, in some industries, restructure their workforces in response to the new regulations."

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