Health Care Reform

Compliance with the new health care reform bill should include not only reviewing thoroughly your company's existing health-care benefits plans and consulting your benefits experts and employment counsel, but also remaining up-to-date on the changes to and evolution of the health care reform laws, which are far from complete. This article provides a brief description of the changes of which employers should be aware.

22 minute read June 18, 2010 at 11:39 AM
By
Joseph Hugg And E. Fredrick Preis, JR.
Health Care Reform

After months of proposals, bills, votes, more bills, and reconciliation bills, the President signed into law the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (“PPACA”) on March 23, 2010, followed on March 30, 2010 by his signing into law the Health Care and Education Tax Credit Reconciliation Act, also known as “the Reconciliation Bill.”

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