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 Jeannie Wilcox | June 7, 2012 | Health Reform, Misc Health Reform
In Washington, when they want to get a read on what employers are thinking about health reform, they call employers…AND they call Lockton Benefit Group experts. Multiple times since the health reform law passed in 2010, Lockton executives have testified, and...
by Mark Holloway | June 4, 2012 | Adult Child Coverage, Dollar Limits, Health Reform
HHS recently issued a final regulation on student health care coverage offered by colleges and universities. The regulation defines “student health insurance coverage” as a type of individual health insurance coverage provided by an institution of higher...
by Mark Holloway | April 30, 2012 | Health Reform
Under the federal health reform law, insurers offering health coverage must meet minimum “medical loss ratios,” that is, they must spend a minimum percentage of premiums they collect in a given state, for a given year, on medical claims or quality improvements for...
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...
