Tag: Healthcare

July 16, 2012 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A principal at Mercer is calling on employers to use the Patient Protection and Affordable...

July 13, 2012 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Provisions of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) could cause employees to retire...

July 13, 2012 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Arthur J. Gallagher & Co.’s employee benefits consulting and brokerage operation, Gallagher Benefit Services, Inc....

July 12, 2012 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), which requires employers to provide full-time employees...

July 12, 2012 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Following the Supreme Court’s recent ruling to uphold the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act,...

July 12, 2012 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Texas Governor Rick Perry announced Texas has no intention of implementing a state insurance exchange...

July 11, 2012 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - American Airlines and its parent company, AMR Corp., are suing to stop providing health care...

July 11, 2012 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Middle-income retirees surveyed list health care expenses as one of their biggest financial surprises in...

July 10, 2012 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Arizona Governor Jan Brewer has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to allow Arizona to eliminate...

July 9, 2012 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The majority of employers surveyed said they had been waiting for the Supreme Court’s decision before developing a...

July 3, 2012 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The U.S. Department of Labor’s Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA) is offering a COBRA workshop in...

July 2, 2012 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The cost of providing employee medical benefits continues to escalate at double-digit levels around the...

June 29, 2012 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Despite the differing reactions among U.S. business sectors to the Affordable Care Act (ACA) Supreme...

June 28, 2012 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Although guidance is still needed following the Supreme Court’s decision to uphold the Patient Protection...

June 28, 2012 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) still faces a contentious political outlook, a...

June 28, 2012 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The immediate response from the employee benefits industry about the Supreme Court decision on the...

June 28, 2012 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Supreme Court issued its highly-anticipated ruling on President Obama's health reform law, upholding the individual...

June 28, 2012 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The U.S. Supreme Court agreed to determine whether an employee benefits plan is subject to...

June 27, 2012 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Employees in Canada may be mistaken about their access to healthcare coverage in retirement, a...

We have devoted several columns to the new Summary of Benefits & Coverage (SBC) rules, which require group health plans...