Massachusetts»
health reform law required individuals to purchase health insurance or face penalties on their tax returns.
And
the health reform law required many employers to provide nursing women on their payrolls with lactation breaks starting in January 2011.
Not exact matches
The Healthcare
Reform Law, including The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and The Healthcare and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010, could have a material adverse effect on Humana's results of operations, including restricting revenue, enrollment and premium growth in certain products and market segments, restricting the company's ability to expand into new markets, increasing the company's medical and operating costs by, among other things,
requiring a minimum benefit ratio on insured products, lowering the company's Medicare payment rates and increasing the company's expenses associated with a non-deductible
health insurance industry fee and other assessments; the company's financial position, including the company's ability to maintain the value of its goodwill; and the company's cash flows.
The tax
reform law repealed the Affordable Care Act mandate that
requires Americans to have
health insurance or pay a penalty.
US
health care
reform law also now protects breastfeeding moms, but it obviously does not
require all moms to breastfeed.
They include: (1) regulatory
law and enforcement work, because industries from banking to private equity funds to large oil companies will likely be targets of the new administration, while
health insurance companies will be subject to heightened regulation; (2) litigation, because a Democratic administration will probably push back tort
reform measures, giving rise to more lawsuits; (3) «green»
law, i.e., representing companies that deal in green technology, whose growth will be stimulated by likely tax incentives as well as a cap and trade system; and (4) real estate, because the bailout legislation will most likely
require banks availing themselves of the benefits to begin issuing mortgages again.
Possible topics about pedagogy include: • Structuring statutory drafting courses • Simulation courses designed using mock legislatures or committees • Course linkages with real - world legislators and special interest organizations • Service learning or clinical opportunities for
law students • Courses focused on
law reform efforts • How to employ Plain - English principles in statutory and rule drafting • Theoretical perspectives on statutory drafting • Involving political realities in
law school drafting courses • Teaching practical aspects of drafting that addresses theories and principles of statutory interpretation and construction Possible topics about practice include: • Unique challenges of drafting
laws and / or regulations in specific areas such as criminal
law, environmental,
health law, etc. • Lawyering for non-profits, federal and state agencies, local governments, and other clients in frequent need of rule - drafting • Practicing in employment
law,
health law, environmental
law, and other heavily regulated fields where private clients
require rule and policy drafting • Non-legal drafting opportunities, such as sports league rules, industry trade group policies, and university rules Possible topics about politics include: • Political influences affecting legislative drafting • Direct democracy and the unique challenges of drafting initiatives and referenda • The implications of special interests driving drafting decisions • Polictics and its influence on legislative history • Lobbyists as legislative drafters.
Like auto insurance, minimal
health insurance will be
required for most of us beginning next year under President Barack Obama's landmark
health care
reform law.
The
health care
reform law requires individuals who don't meet one of the
law's exemptions to buy an insurance plan that meets minimum requirements or face a penalty.The
law set up online state insurance exchanges to simplify cost comparisons among plans and to make purchasing a plan easy.