If you are a small business owner, have you considered providing health insurance for your employees? The Affordable Care Act (ACA) makes health insurance mandatory for most Americans in 2014, and the deadline for individuals to enroll in personal coverage — March 31, 2014 — is approaching quickly. Your employees may be scrambling right about now to get coverage. If you are trying to decide whether or not to provide
Another View From the Health Insurance Trenches
It has been about a month since we wrote about our experience “in the trenches” as we help our clients manage the transition to the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Many of you are wondering how things are going. Record High Volume at Virginia Medical Plans We, like most brokers across the country, continue to experience a record high volume of calls and emails. As you can imagine, we are doing
Online SHOP – Small Business Health Options Program – Delayed by One Year
Last week we learned that the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has delayed by one year the launch of the online SHOP (Small Business Health Options Program). What is SHOP? SHOP is the federal online health insurance marketplace through which small business owners (employing less than 50 FTEs) can shop group health insurance plans for their employees. The idea behind SHOP is much the same as that of
