Source: Modesto Bee I am a lifelong Democrat who has worked for more than a decade to improve the policies and build the coalitions necessary for the success of the Affordable Care Act. Even so, I believe the ACA didn’t go far enough to guarantee universal and affordable health coverage. So why I am so hopping mad about the “single-payer” bill – SB 562 – making its way through … [Read more...]

June 6, 2017, Los Angeles Times A proposal to adopt a single-payer healthcare system for California took an initial step forward Thursday when the state Senate approved a bare-bones bill that lacks a method for paying the $400-billion cost of the plan. The proposal was made by legislators led by Sen. Ricardo Lara (D-Bell Gardens) at the same time President Trump and Republican members of … [Read more...]

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SB 562 would establish a state-run single-payer health care system. All Californians will lose their current health plans, to be replaced by government run health care, with benefits yet appointees yet to be identified, to include provisions yet to be named - all paid for by a doubling of your annual tax bill. SB 562 forces California to hand over at least $179 billion in new state taxes to … [Read more...]

On Wednesday, February 15, the Trump Administration released its first significant health policy action, a proposed rule intended to stabilize the individual and small group private health insurance markets for 2018. The 71-page proposal released by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) includes the following significant components: A proposed change to the planned individual … [Read more...]

Question: We are a smaller employer and the FMLA and CFRA leave of absence laws don’t apply to us. We have an employee who is pregnant. Do we need to give her time off? How much? What else do we need to know? Answer: Yes, as long as you have 5 or more employees you are required to provide Pregnancy Disability Leave (PDL) to pregnant employees. It doesn’t matter how long the employee has … [Read more...]

The IRS has announced that it will continue to process tax filings of individuals whose returns do not indicate whether they have maintained health insurance as required under the Affordable Care Act (ACA). The announcement is in direct response to the President’s January executive order to ease the ACA’s economic and regulatory burdens. In recent years, individuals were instructed to check a … [Read more...]

The next era of U.S. health care reform is underway with a focus on repeal and replace of the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Last week marked the latest milestone in this process with House Republicans introducing two different bills, collectively called the American Health Care Act (AHCA). The bills were developed by Republican leadership and are proceeding through the legislative process in the U.S. … [Read more...]

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