by Girish Anand | Nov 19, 2013 | Affordable Care Act, Health Care Reform, HHS, Obamacare, PPACA
If you build it, they will come, and some two million have already visited thehealthsherpa.com, a site built in three days that uses data from HealthCare.gov to provide almost instantaneous quotes on Obamacare health insurance policies. The site, coded by three...
by Girish Anand | Nov 18, 2013 | DOL, IRS
Evidently not, according to a survey conducted by the National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE). Unpaid internships led to full-time jobs 36 percent of the time with a median starting salary of $35,721 a year, according to survey results. In contrast, new...
by Girish Anand | Nov 18, 2013 | DOL, Health Care Reform
The Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services and the Treasury have jointly issued a final rule increasing parity between mental health/substance use disorder benefits and medical/surgical benefits in group and individual health plans. The final rule implements...
by Girish Anand | Nov 18, 2013 | Personnel Concepts
Obamacare supporters are quick to distance the Affordable Care Act (ACA), the federal health care reform measure signed into law in 2010, from the Medicare Catastrophic Coverage Act of 1989, but some parallels do exist. For one, seniors in 1989 on Medicare balked at...
by Girish Anand | Nov 15, 2013 | Employee Benefits Administration, Random Musings
Let's hope people have the inside track on winning the lottery since it seems that many of them cash out their 401(k)s upon leaving their jobs for a new one, buying things like cars, jewelry and vacations. The good news is that the percentage of people so doing...