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Anticipating the Pain of Reform

Six months after the passage of health-care reform, companies are faced with hard choices when it comes to employee benefits.

September 1, 2010

Six months after the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, aka "health-care reform," was signed into law, finance chiefs say they still have little clarity on how best to structure their employee health-care plans to comply with the regulations. But they do seem certain that both companies and employees will end up paying more for whatever coverage they have, at least in the short term. Read more...

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