Four Myths Regarding the Hobby Lobby Case

    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...

How do the Halbig and King Decisions Affect the ACA?

    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...

What do Yesterday’s SCOTUS Rulings Mean to Employers?

         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...

The Shape Of Things To Come

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...