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Employers Responsible for W-2 Reporting
News from the Blues reports: "As part of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), employers are required to report the cost of health benefits coverage under an employer-sponsored group health plan. This applies to both self-funded (ASO) and fully insured employer groups....
IRS Already Gearing Up for Health-Care Crackdown
Fox Business reports: "The rest of the country may be waiting for the U.S. Supreme Court to decide the fate of President Barack Obama’s health-care law, but the Internal Revenue Service is wasting no time. It wants to add new agents to hunt down tax cheats and still...
‘Obamacare’ Sounds Different When Supporters Say It
NPR Reports: "Until recently, "Obamacare" was a word mostly used by opponents of President Obama's health care law. Now, supporters of the law are attempting to claim it as their own. During the three days of health care hearings, protesters outside of the Supreme...
If The Law Falls …
Insurance News Net reports: Chicago Tribune March 29--Over the last three days, theU.S. Supreme Courthas slapped on the table a serious possibility that defenders of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act never envisioned: A ruling that the heart of the law --...
Ruling may spur foes to challenge Mass. health law
Boston.com reports: "A Supreme Court ruling against President Obama’s landmark health care law could prompt challenges to the Massachusetts law that inspired it, according to legal specialists and activists following the case. The legal case against the federal...
ACA Alternatives Waiting in the Wings
Medpage Today reports: "As the fate of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) is debated privately by Supreme Court justices over the upcoming weeks, bills containing "Obamacare" alternatives are waiting and ready in Congress, regardless of what the Supreme Court decides....
Justices meet Friday to vote on health care case
AP reports: "While the rest of us have to wait until June, the justices of the Supreme Court will know the likely outcome of the historic health care case by the time they go home this weekend. After months of anticipation, thousands of pages of briefs and more than...
White House: No Contingencies For Health Care Law
Insurance News Net reports: "Voicing optimism, the White House on Wednesday said it is too early to devise contingency plans that anticipate the Supreme Court striking down any portion of President Barack Obama's health care law. Separately, the White House says it...
Obama health care law at Supreme Court: mega case for the history books
The Christian Science Monitor reports: "When the US Supreme Court begins examining the constitutionality of President Obama's health-care reform law on March 26, there will be more at stake in the unfolding drama than the judicial assessment of Mr. Obama's signature...
House votes to repeal key health care reform provision
CNN Politics reports: "Led by its Republican majority, the U.S. House voted Thursday to eliminate from the 2010 health care reform law a proposed advisory board that would recommend how to achieve needed, but as-yet-unreachable Medicare savings. The repeal measure...