| Above the Fold |
June 29, 2012 |
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| High court health law ruling leaves winners, losers |
| By Mark Sherman and Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar |
| By a single vote, President Barack Obama's health care overhaul survived a painstaking Supreme Court review that consumed thousands of pages in legal filings and an extraordinary six hours-plus of oral argument time back in March…Read more |
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| Employers must be ready for exchanges |
| By Amanda McGrory |
| As the Supreme Court ruled 5-4 to uphold the health care reform law, the various mandates are continuing to move forward, and employers need to be ready for the effects. Specifically, the health care exchange system will be a major change that employers must be ready to deal with, says Lee Doble, CLU, CEBS, managing director of Frank Crystal & Company…Read more |
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| Medicaid recipients may suffer in PPACA fallout |
| By Andy Stonehouse |
| Medicare advocates note that Medicaid recipients in some states may get the short end of the stick, as the PPACA's drive for Medicaid expansion is now more or less optional for states who choose not to do so…Read more |
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| The Pulse |
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| A midsummer night's mare |
| By Denis Storey |
| That was certainly exciting. And scary. And funny. And, I suppose, ultimately tragic all at the same time. Should we really have expected any other kind of ending to the legal drama surrounding the health reform law but one dripping with Shakespearean irony?…Read more |
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| Overheard on BenefitsPro |
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 Aon and Mercer surveys had ACA adding 1-3% max to costs.
Meanwhile Medicare has had the 2 lowest inflation years on record back to back even with the 14% subsidy cut in Advantage programs and the addition of free preventive care and closing the donut hole.
The MLR is the major device for starting to get costs under control. Forcing efficiency across the healthcare supply chain is a huge driver to get rid of the 40-50% of every dollar spent that is wasted on redundancy, paperwork, errors, checkers checking on checkers et al.
-- Jnail, Will reform create a zombie wasteland?
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