This week the New York Times published an article with a very compelling headline – “I.R.S. Bars Employers From Dumping Workers Into Health Exchanges”. Unfortunately, this isn’t the full story, but it was enough to create some drama. As the exchanges have started to settle in and the debate over the future of ACA starts […]
Bloomberg News Target Corp. (TGT) will end health insurance for part-time employees in April, joining Trader Joe’s Co., Home Depot Inc. and other U.S. retailers that have scaled back benefits in response to changes from Obamacare. About 10 percent of part-time employees, defined as those working fewer than 30 hours a week, use Target’s health […]
This is the third in a 3-part series entitled “Is COBRA dead?” Previous posts can be found here and here. The Health affairs blog recently broke news on two critical announcements from the Employer Benefits Services Administration (EBSA) around changing COBRA rules. First, EBSA created a very-special “special enrollment period” for people on COBRA, giving […]
This is the second in a 3-part series entitled “Is COBRA dead?” The first article is available here. As we saw in our previous post, there are huge financial advantages to the exchanges over COBRA. However, when someone leaves a job, like clockwork employers still send out an informative COBRA notification within 2-3 weeks. What’s […]