The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) was designed to increase health insurance quality and affordability, lower the uninsured rate by expanding insurance coverage, and reduce the costs of healthcare overall. Along with sweeping change came sweeping criticisms and issues. This book explores the pros and cons of the Affordable Care Act, and explains who benefits from the ACA. Readers will learn how the economy is affected by the ACA, and the impact of the ACA rollout.

American workers are struggling financially. They face crippling student loan debt, a revolving door of credit card debt, rising housing expenses, and skyrocketing medical expenses.And more and more, employees looking to employers to help them solve this massive problem.This gives employers today an unprecedented opportunity. Employers who take the time to understand the financial obstacles faced by employees and understand the most important trends shaping workplace benefits, are the ones who will win the war for talent and improve financial outcomes for both workers and business. In The Financial Wellness Mandate, seasoned financial and workplace benefits expert Daniel explains how workplace benefits have evolved, details the big four obstacles standing between employees and financial wellness, and shares his unique take on the six most important megatrends that promise to upend how employers, their advisors and benefits providers view and deliver financial wellness benefits: Shifting demographics and the changing face of the American workerThe changing relationship between employer and employee from transactional to empathetic and focused on mutual outcomesThe undeniable force of behavioral economics and why they matter in how employees handle money and how employers think about benefitsThe growth of consumerism and what it means for how employee plan and deliver workplace benefitsThe convergence of health care and financial care and their inseparable impact on employee financial wellnessThe rise of technology and data, and their impact on financial wellness benefitsDaniel brings these insights together in a way no other author has yet. Employers who heed his advice and follow his clear prescription for creating a more modern benefits strategy will not only help the American worker achieve true financial wellness, they'll also position themselves to be the employer of choice for current and future generations of employees

Section 1557 is the nondiscrimination provision of the Affordable Care Act (ACA). This brief guide explains Section 1557 in more detail and what your practice needs to do to meet the requirements of this federal law. Includes sample notices of nondiscrimination, as well as taglines translated for the top 15 languages by state.

The United States is unique among economically advanced nations in its reliance on employers to provide health benefits voluntarily for workers and their families. Although it is well known that this system fails to reach millions of these individuals as well as others who have no connection to the work place, the system has other weaknesses. It also has many advantages. Because most proposals for health care reform assume some continued role for employers, this book makes an important contribution by describing the strength and limitations of the current system of employment-based health benefits. It provides the data and analysis needed to understand the historical, social, and economic dynamics that have shaped present-day arrangements and outlines what might be done to overcome some of the access, value, and equity problems associated with current employer, insurer, and government policies and practices. Health insurance terminology is often perplexing, and this volume defines essential concepts clearly and carefully. Using an array of primary sources, it provides a store of information on who is covered for what services at what costs, on how programs vary by employer size and industry, and on what governments doâ€"and do not doâ€"to oversee employment-based health programs. A case study adapted from real organizations' experiences illustrates some of the practical challenges in designing, managing, and revising benefit programs. The sometimes unintended and unwanted consequences of employer practices for workers and health care providers are explored. Understanding the concepts of risk, biased risk selection, and risk segmentation is fundamental to sound health care reform. This volume thoroughly examines these key concepts and how they complicate efforts to achieve efficiency and equity in health coverage and health care. With health care reform at the forefront of public attention, this volume will be important to policymakers and regulators, employee benefit managers and other executives, trade associations, and decisionmakers in the health insurance industry, as well as analysts, researchers, and students of health policy.

Shared Responsibility for Employers Regarding Health Coverage (US Internal Revenue Service Regulation) (IRS) (2018 Edition) The Law Library presents the complete text of the Shared Responsibility for Employers Regarding Health Coverage (US Internal Revenue Service Regulation) (IRS) (2018 Edition). Updated as of May 29, 2018 This document contains final regulations providing guidance to employers that are subject to the shared responsibility provisions regarding employee health coverage under section 4980H of the Internal Revenue Code (Code), enacted by the Affordable Care Act. These regulations affect employers referred to as applicable large employers (generally meaning, for each year, employers that had 50 or more full-time employees, including full-time equivalent employees, during the prior year). Generally, under section 4980H an applicable large employer that, for a calendar month, fails to offer to its full-time employees health coverage that is affordable and provides minimum value may be subject to an assessable payment if a full-time employee enrolls for that month in a qualified health plan for which the employee receives a premium tax credit. This book contains: - The complete text of the Shared Responsibility for Employers Regarding Health Coverage (US Internal Revenue Service Regulation) (IRS) (2018 Edition) - A table of contents with the page number of each section