by Ed Fensholt | October 12, 2011 | Health Reform
Here’s a quick update of a couple interesting things going on in the world of healthcare reform. We thought these topics were not worthy of a full-fledged Alert, so we’re posting them here, on our Health Reform Blog. IRS Comes Through as Promised: Proposes “W-2 Safe...
by Mark Holloway | September 29, 2011 | Health Reform, Individual Mandate
As my Constitutional law professor once quipped, “Congress can make you diaper your dog.” However, beginning in 2014, can Congress make individuals pay a penalty if they do not have health insurance coverage? Later today, the lawyers for the White House will ask the...
by Jeannie Wilcox | September 28, 2011 | Health Reform
Lockton Benefit Group Compliance Directors – and health reform experts – Ed Fensholt and Mark Holloway recently penned an article for Benefits Law Journal entitled Congress Repeals Expanded 1099 Reporting and IRS Issues W-2 Reporting Guidance. In addition to...
by Ed Fensholt | September 27, 2011 | Health Reform
There is word today that the Obama Administration will not ask a federal appeals court to reconsider its decision last month, striking down the health reform law’s “individual mandate.” The Administration’s decision opens the door to accelerated Supreme Court review...
by Jeannie Wilcox | September 19, 2011 | Health Reform
Health Insurance Exchanges will be soon be ubiquitous. We will quit speculating about them, and some Americans will begin using them. Did you realize that though the Department of Health and Human Services has responsibility for forming a basic framework – states that...
by Ed Fensholt | September 15, 2011 | Health Reform
A federal trial judge in Pennsylvania ruled Tuesday that the health reform law’s “individual mandate” is unconstitutional, becoming the third federal trial judge to strike the mandate down. At least four federal trial judges have upheld the mandate on constitutional...
