Health News
- Health-reform Law Has Been Substantively Changed At Least 14 Times, Most Recently By Kentucky's Rep. Brett Guthrie
While the debate over repealing "Obamacare" has polarized Washington and the country, Congress occasionally passes amendments to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. The latest, signed by President Obama Oct. 7, was sponsored by Republican...
- How To Succeed In Health Insurance For Your Small Business Without Really Trying -- Well, Maybe Without Trying Too Hard
UPDATE, Feb. 11: The Obama administration has again delayed and relaxed the requirements for employers to provide health insurance. Employers with 50 to 99 employees won't be required to cover them until 2016, and those with 100 or more will only...
- Beshear And Two Other Democratic Governors Say Obamacare Is Working In Their States, And Cite Examples
Gov. Steve Beshear continues to be a major national cheerleader for the federal health-reform law, citing Kentucky examples in an op-ed piece he and the Democratic governors of Connecticut and Washington circulated to newspapers this week. "People keep...
- Lexington Lawyer Writes Booklet Helping Kentucky Businesses To Break Down Health-care Reform Law
Margaret Levi, a lawyer with the Lexington firm of Wyatt, Tarrant & Combs, has authored a new publication, The Impact of Health Care Reform on Kentucky Employers. The 68-page booklet, published by the Kentucky Chamber of Commerce, is a readable summary...
- Illinois Entrepreneurs And Small Business Need Shop Employee Choice
Illinois is one of 18 states recently granted a delay by the Department of Health and Human Services for the employee choice feature of the small business health options program marketplace, or SHOP. But what exactly is employee choice, and why is this...
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Parents' insurance can now cover children up to age 26
Following the lead of the federal health-care law, Kentucky employers can now extend health coverage to their employees' adult children. The employees will not be subject to state taxes if they opt for the coverage, Business Insurance's Jerry Geisel reports.
Gov. Steve Beshear signed House Bill 255 last week. "The law requires employers to extend health care coverage to employee's adult children up to age 26," Geisel reports. "Under prior Kentucky law, an employee's child had to be younger than 19, or 24 if a full-time student, for the coverage to be provided on a tax-free basis."
Similar laws have been passed in Arizona and Maine this year. The extended coverage has been one of the most highlighted pieces of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, which was signed into law a year ago tomorrow.
- Health-reform Law Has Been Substantively Changed At Least 14 Times, Most Recently By Kentucky's Rep. Brett Guthrie
While the debate over repealing "Obamacare" has polarized Washington and the country, Congress occasionally passes amendments to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. The latest, signed by President Obama Oct. 7, was sponsored by Republican...
- How To Succeed In Health Insurance For Your Small Business Without Really Trying -- Well, Maybe Without Trying Too Hard
UPDATE, Feb. 11: The Obama administration has again delayed and relaxed the requirements for employers to provide health insurance. Employers with 50 to 99 employees won't be required to cover them until 2016, and those with 100 or more will only...
- Beshear And Two Other Democratic Governors Say Obamacare Is Working In Their States, And Cite Examples
Gov. Steve Beshear continues to be a major national cheerleader for the federal health-reform law, citing Kentucky examples in an op-ed piece he and the Democratic governors of Connecticut and Washington circulated to newspapers this week. "People keep...
- Lexington Lawyer Writes Booklet Helping Kentucky Businesses To Break Down Health-care Reform Law
Margaret Levi, a lawyer with the Lexington firm of Wyatt, Tarrant & Combs, has authored a new publication, The Impact of Health Care Reform on Kentucky Employers. The 68-page booklet, published by the Kentucky Chamber of Commerce, is a readable summary...
- Illinois Entrepreneurs And Small Business Need Shop Employee Choice
Illinois is one of 18 states recently granted a delay by the Department of Health and Human Services for the employee choice feature of the small business health options program marketplace, or SHOP. But what exactly is employee choice, and why is this...