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NAHU's new president, Don Goldmann recently told Benefits Selling about the association's plans for the coming year, his thoughts on outside forces affecting the insurance industry, and the ways he sees brokers and other insurance professionals reinventing themselves in order to adapt to the ever-changing benefits environment.
The Cadillac tax undermines the future of HSAs and other benefit accounts, and ultimately hurts those Americans who want and need to save for their health care expenses.
The growing campaign against Obamacare's tax on expensive health plans was to be expected. But this tax deals with a root problem in the U.S. health care system, and it would be better to fix its eminently fixable flaws than to kill it outright.
The dance between the federal government and employers over the so-called Cadillac tax continues as the IRS is seeking comments on yet more details of the tax on excessive employer-sponsored coverage.
A recent press release from the National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB) noted that, "Under Obamacare, individuals face a penalty for not buying health insurance. But now, even small businesses that choose to jump through hoops to help workers pay for healthcare costs could pay penalties."
Some health care providers are running into patients in health-care sharing ministry programs. Here's what you need to know about these programs, some of which might be exempt from many of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) requirements.
Almost half of sponsors to defined benefit plans will consider some form of lump-sum payouts in the next two years, according to the Mercer-CFO Research 2015 Risk Survey.