Affordable Care Act Renewal Time and the Puzzles for Workers

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New Orleans      The window has now opened for new signups under the Affordable Care Act.  This time around there won’t be any do-overs or make-ups, I’ll bet.  The Administration is already soft selling the numbers and predicting less than 10 million enrollees by the end of 2015, dampening expectations, either tactically or determinedly.             This is …

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Small Employers and Nonprofits Caught in Healthcare Bind

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New Orleans    Talking to small employers about the health care exchange has been a slog, and it doesn’t look like it will get that much easier soon. The numbers are also somewhat daunting in the aggregate. Businesses with fewer than 50 workers don’t have to provide coverage under the mandate. They employee 34 million people …

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