So, yesterday, I talked about how corporations are using PPACA (Obamacare) as a wedge with which they can obtain information to which they really are not entitled. And, as a means to lower their health care costs, via an avenue that is impermissible. One that the regulators have begun to address.
Continue reading The COOPs. No, not the MIT/Harvard one, either.
I have a few posts in the queue about the Affordable Care Act and how it’s been faring. In particular, how the actions of those that detest the act have made things more intolerable. But, today, I will be discussing how companies have been subverting the act for their own purposes.
Continue reading Corporate Overreach?
For years, I’ve been working with my clients to provide special benefits; the kind that make starting and running an entrepreneurial business worthwhile. One section where I’ve been helping them is healthcare; to provide medical and dental reimbursement plans and flexible savings account plans (FSA).
Continue reading Is there a Cadillac Tax in your future?
There is a penalty that can be imposed as of 1 July 2015 to small business employers who reimburse employees for premiums paid for individual health insurance policies under Obamacare (PPACA). Yes, that means if you don’t offer insurance because your state does not offer plans for small employers and the various insurance companies charge rates that are outrageous, you can still be penalized. But, there are ways to fix this. Read on…
Continue reading Hey, business owner- this affects you!
I live in a fairly affluent section of America. Our high school is the largest in the Commonwealth, with 3400. With a wide range of aptitudes and ambitions. Many of our graduates attend the Ivies (and the elite state schools like Michigan, Virginia, etc.)… and some are recent (legal and illegal) immigrants lacking formal schooling and/or a foundation in English. Some are among the 1%… both at the top and bottom of the spectrum.
Continue reading The Gaps Remain…
I have written (here’s one from more than 2 years ago) about this sort of issue before. While I have mixed emotions, I don’t want insurance companies to purchase (or otherwise acquire) physician practices. I am not sure I want hospitals systems to acquire docs, either, but it seems that the courts are coming around to my point of view, too.
Continue reading The first of many? Or just a stretch too far?
So, another one of those blessings that has come about from Obamacare (there are many that are easily demonstrated)- even though this is more a byproduct than a design- is that our medical lab results are now coming to us in a fashion that most of us can understand. (I do believe that is the longest sentence I have ever written!)
Continue reading Health data coming your way
The IRS is being squeezed. Part of this is a result of the insane concept that Republicans perpetrate about the deficit. (OK. I have a post coming up soon about this. Suffice it to say, all that hoopla how the deficit was the biggest bugaboo we needed to address a few years ago- well, the looming deficit problem is basically gone. Not because we cut the budget- that was only going to work over 10 years. But, because, as most sentient beings recognized at the time, the large deficit was simply a factor of the moribund economy. The economy picks up- the deficit problem is erased. Voila- we’re magicians.)
Continue reading Why you need an Enrolled Agent
Well, there goes that idea. Oh, not mine. But, a lot of mid-sized entities had the bright idea to provide their employees with tax-free cash to purchase their own insurance on the PPACA Health Exchanges (Obamacare). Now, they won’t be doing that…
Continue reading Whoops, there goes another kilowatt dam!
Surprise! Your health insurance rates are going to go up. Why? Insurance for the insurance companies…
Continue reading Rates on the rise?