by Mark Holloway | December 24, 2013 | Excepted Benefits, Health Reform, Individual Mandate
Written by Mark Holloway, J.D. ‘Twas the Friday before Christmas, and federal regulators upheld their tradition of issuing regulatory guidance just before a major holiday. This latest installment proposes changes to the federal health reform law’s (the Affordable Care...
by Jeannie Wilcox | June 29, 2012 | Health Reform, Individual Mandate
Well, after digesting the entire Supreme Court decision, Lockton expert Ed Fensholt, JD summed it up this way in his latest Health Reform Advisory Alert: Largely, not much has changed. Still much to do, and not much time to do it. He also had these thoughts to share,...
by Jeannie Wilcox | June 28, 2012 | Health Reform, Individual Mandate
You have seen the headlines, and you may have even expected the result, but did you expect the reasoning? Today the Supreme Court concluded that the individual mandate cannot be justified under the Constitution’s Commerce Clause, but that the individual mandate...
by Ed Fensholt | March 29, 2012 | Employer Mandate, Health Reform, Individual Mandate
Well, we didn’t see this coming. Wednesday morning, during the third of three days of oral arguments before the U.S. Supreme Court concerning the federal health reform law’s “individual mandate,” the Court’s conservative justices made clear their doubts about the...
by Ed Fensholt | March 28, 2012 | Health Reform, Individual Mandate
Day two of the oral arguments before the United States Supreme Court, regarding the constitutionality of the federal health reform law’s “individual mandate,” did not disappoint. If Monday’s oral arguments (largely dealing with jurisdictional issues) were tantamount...
by Ed Fensholt | March 26, 2012 | Health Reform, Individual Mandate
Although we don’t have the final score, it appears the high-profile challenge to the federal health reform law’s “individual mandate” has survived its first-round matchup in the Supreme Court’s version of the NCAA’s March Madness. For those of you addicted to the...