One part of the state exchanges has been postponed for one year. This is unfortunate for small businesses, because this aspect of the exchange would let them have different plans for their employees but only have to make one monthly premium payment. Small-Business Insurance Market From Health Law Delayed a Year - Bloomberg
Edit to clarify: the delay means tist regulation is now mandatory for 2015, not 2014. States are free to implement sooner, and there are reports some will do so.
Small-business employees will have to wait a year before they can choose their own medical plans after the Obama administration delayed a part of the 2010 U.S. health-care law intended to provide them with coverage options.
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Implementation of employee choice in the program won’t be possible next year because of “operational challenges,” the U.S. said in the regulation posted March 11. The government, in its regulatory statement, said it had heard from insurers and others who were worried that health plans, brokers and companies wouldn’t be able to adjust to the new marketplace, called the Small Business Health Options Program, or SHOP, in time.
Edit to clarify: the delay means tist regulation is now mandatory for 2015, not 2014. States are free to implement sooner, and there are reports some will do so.
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