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Orthopedic surgeon, Dr. Tom Price is now in charge of Health & Human Services and here is an analysis of the laws he may try to dismantle, programs which could lose government support, and the ensuing federal budget implications. This article is based on actual facts, not �alternate facts� which are popular with the Trump Administration. Budget Implications The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act has been a revenue generator, while also providing medical insurance for 20 million low income people and has helped to reduce the federal deficit.   (ObamaCareFacts.com, 2017) According to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and the Joint Committee on Taxation (JCT), repeal of the Affordable Care Act would cause the federal deficit to grow by $137,000,000,000 by 2025.   (Congressional Budget Office, 2015) That�s right, a repeal of the ACA would increase the deficit by 137 billion dollars.   Here are some of the provisions which have generated money for the go...

Rules for Employers with Grandfather Exceptions for the Health Care Mandates The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act mandates that employers with health care programs meet certain requirements for employee participation, coverage limits, and treatment of pre-existing conditions upon enrollment. Having just spent the past few days studying the grandfather provisions for the health care reform implementation in 2014, this article is meant to provide a bit of illumination to any confused employers or their staff. Generally grandfathered group health care programs will have a calendar year or a fiscal year plan renewal date. Since this is the time when changes are introduced each year, if a plan has a June anniversary date, it would have had to apply for grandfather status by the June 2011 anniversary. Hence the first anniversary of a grandfathered plan is likely to have occurred by now and this is the time when a plan administrator may be required to show the plan meets the PPACA ...