While I have not personally had the opportunity to peruse the voluminous health care legislation acted on this week, details are beginning to emerge about the potential impact on employers. As the reconciliation process continues and the administration seeks adjustments to items such as the omission of the immediate pre-existing condition protection for children (discussed ...
Coal industry employers are sounding an alarm relating to an amendment to the Senate health care bill relating to black lung benefits.
As reported by George Hohmann in today’s Charleston Daily Mail, “changes in the federal black lung benefits program that Sen. Robert Byrd inserted in the Senate version of the health-care bill would cost insurance companies, ...