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Benefits in the News > By Subject > Health plans - policy Now Viewing Recent Headlines View Excerpts and Recent Headlines Health Law's Downfall Could Put GOP in Odd Spot : NPR Legal Challenges to Health Reform Leading Some States to Slow or Halt Insurance Exchanges 5 Must-Dos for U.S. Health Care Reform The Fork in the Road for Health Care: Stopping Ever-Tighter Squeeze on the Middle Class [Opinion] Obamacare Will Not Fix Health Care Health Care Reform Will Increase Coverage, But Won't Improve Access to Care, Outcome Supreme Court Review of the Affordable Care Act: Implications for Plan Sponsors and Health Insurers GAO Report Calls ACA Tax Credit Disincentive to Small Business Health Coverage Obama Health Care Hangs on the Commerce Clause [Opinion] Health Care Economics 101 and the Supreme Court Can U.S. Remain the Leader in Healthcare If Innovative Culture Is Lost? Should The States Set Up ObamaCare Exchanges? Poll: What It's Like to Be Sick in America Health Care Costs Are Top Concern During 'Small Business Week' Tracking Implementation of the Affordable Care Act by the States Guide to HHS Surveys and Data Resources [Opinion] HHS Doesn't Speak for Many Women Massachusetts Health Care Reform: Six Years Later (PDF) [Opinion] The Fatter The Nation Is, The More You Pay [Opinion] Why Do We Regulate? Factors Contributing to Low Use and Complexity of the Small Employer Health Insurance Tax Credit Employment-Based Health Coverage Rate Continues to Shrink (PDF) Deloitte Health Care Reform Memo, May 21, 2012 Inaugural Health Care Cost and Utilization Report Summarizes National Trends in Health Care Utilization and Cost What Could Revolutionize Health Care? This Database [Opinion] Broken Promise: Why ObamaCare Will Force Americans to Lose the Health Care Coverage They Have and Like (PDF) [Opinion] Links to Witness Testimony at House Hearing on 'Health Care Consolidation and Competition after PPACA' DOL Releases Preliminary 2009 Versions of Pension and Health Plan Bulletins and Form 5500 Data Health Care Costs Reported in Recent Milliman Medical Index Incite Fear, Car Comparisons Health Reform Would Bring a Windfall for Insurers Health Tax Credit Could Mean Big Savings for Small Firms [Opinion] Text of Memo to Republicans on Status of Congressional Investigation on Obamacare Negotiations with Drug Makers (PDF) [Opinion] USCCB Submits Comments on Proposed HHS Rulemaking, Urges Re-Opening of Final Rule Defining Mandate, Exemption GOP Prepares Reform Plan for Ruling on Health Law [Official Guidance] Text of IRS Notice of Meeting of Advisory Group for the Tax Exempt and Government Entities Division (PDF) How Does Health Reform Affect Rural America? Proskauer ERISA Litigation Newsletter, May 2012 [Official Guidance] Text of General CCIIO Guidance on Federally-Facilitated Health Exchanges (PDF) More States Working to Implement Health Insurance Exchanges, HHS Announces Animated U.S. Map Showing Year-by-Year Increase in Obesity Among State Populations, 1985-2010 RAND Study of Effect of ACA on Enrollment and Premiums, Either With or Without the Individual Mandate (PDF) [Official Guidance] Text of Official Corrections to Final HHS Regs on Standards for Reinsurance, Risk Corridors, and Risk Adjustment (PDF) [Opinion] Looking at Single-Payor Health Care Efforts in Vermont, Montana and California Resource Page on Implementation of Health Insurance Medical Loss Ratios by the States, Updated May 11, 2012 GAO Testimony on Unemployed Older Workers Facing Long-Term Joblessness and Reduced Retirement Security Many Experience Challenges Regaining Employment and Face Reduced Retirement Security [Opinion] Provisions in Health Reform Law and Regs Will Reduce Access to Health Savings Accounts ML Strategies Health Care Reform Update, May 14, 2012 (PDF) Federal Guidance and Regulation of State Health Benefit Exchanges Arizona Now Allowing Some Religious Employers' Health Plans to Opt Out of Contraceptive Drug Coverage Mandate [Opinion] Health Care Reform: What Employers Should Be Considering Now Deloitte Health Care Reform Memo, May 14, 2012 [Opinion] Slippery-Slope Logic, As Applied to Health Care Reform Massachusetts May Impose 'Luxury Tax' on the State's Most Pricey Hospitals [Opinion] Techniques Used by Obamacare Could Support Proposed Taxation of Employer-Provided Health Care Benefits [Opinion] Why Employer-Paid Health Insurance Drives Up Health Care Costs Workplace Wellness Programs: Trends, Changes in the Law Starting in 2014, and Issues to Watch [Guidance Overview] Connecticut's Group Health Plan Would Lose Governmental Plan Status by Covering Employees of Non-Profit Contractors The Small Business Tax Credit in the ACA Is Good Business Sense [Opinion] Even If Obamacare Survives Supreme Court Scrutiny, Employers May Do It In Only One-Fourth of Workers Would Use COBRA To Keep Health Coverage If They Became Unemployed States Need Not Further Regulate Individual Insurance Market, Study Says Kaiser Permanente Agrees To Make Public Doctor Incentives 75 Million People Were Without Health Insurance at Some Point in 2001-2002, Study Says Important word about authorship: BenefitsLink® (BenefitsLink.com) provides this page for you, containing selected hypertext links to pages on the web that our editors think will be useful or interesting to you. 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