Benefits & ERISA Law

An Employer's Guide to Health Reform

I expect to be litigating, down the road, issues, complications and conundrums created by health care reform. Let's be honest - its impossible to imagine any large structural undertaking not generating problems, including unforeseen ones, that will have to be resolved by the courts. For now, though, the issue is more one of planning for changes, and what needs to be done now to accommodate them. My colleague George Chimento, whose paper suggesting that employees should not be given the option of managing their own 401(k) accounts is discussed here, passes along this client advisory on 'Baby Steps: an Employer's First Year under Health Reform,' which addresses these changes.

Full post as published by Boston ERISA Law Blog on April 12, 2010 (boomark / email).