by Chris Schrader | Jul 28, 2014 | Affordable Care Act, Blog, In The News
Not sure what to make of the Hobby Lobby Case? Join the crowd. We have been inundated in the past weeks with interpretations of the decision. Here are just a few: Nancy Pelosi – “…five men could get down to specifics of whether a woman should use a...
by Chris Schrader | Jul 23, 2014 | Affordable Care Act, Blog
Two decisions regarding the permissibility of federal subsidies granted to ACA Federal Insurance Marketplace enrollees were released yesterday. The two courts arrived at opposite conclusions. The far more significant court, the DC Circuit Court of Appeals, heard...
by Chris Schrader | Jul 8, 2014 | Affordable Care Act, Blog, Human Resources, In The News
Judging from the hyperventilated responses from certain quarters in the wake of the Hobby Lobby decision one could conclude the SCOTUS codified the right of a private employer to compel certain religious observations by their employees. This is false. Let’s...
by Chris Schrader | Jul 1, 2014 | Affordable Care Act, Blog, Human Resources, In The News
The Supreme Court issued two decisions yesterday. One has implications for state governments as employers, and the other has implications for the Affordable Care Act. Harris v. Quinn involved the complaint of Harris, mother of a disabled son who, as his...
by Chris Schrader | Jan 28, 2014 | Affordable Care Act, Blog, Human Resources, In The News
Based on the contours established over the last four months we now have enough information on the ambitious launch of the Affordable Care Act to begin to understand the shape of things to come. The intended objective of the Act (The practical elimination of uninsured...
by Chris Schrader | Nov 25, 2013 | Affordable Care Act, Blog, In The News
The Obama Administration announced changes last Friday in dates relevant to open enrollment in 2014; it also announced that 2013 enrollees will have until December 23rd to pay for insurance coverage beginning January 1, 2014 (the previous deadline was December 15)....
