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August 20, 2014
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Medical Device Tax Slipping Through IRS Hands | WWC

A 2.3 percent excise tax on medical devices that took effect in January has failed to live up to expectations, and an audit blames the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) for botching its implementation. A report by the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration (TIGTA) says the tax has so far brought in only $913.4 million out of a projected $1.2 billion for the first two quarters of 2...
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August 19, 2014
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Watchdog Groups Claim Insurance Companies Still Discriminating Against the Sick

Several watchdog groups have written to Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Sylvia Mathews Burwell to protest that the health insurance industry is still discriminating against the sick in terms of harder access to care and onerous pricing for medicines, despite the antidiscrimination provision of the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Among the 300 groups writing -- all supporters of the A...
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August 14, 2014
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Prove-It-Or-Lose-It Notices Sent to Suspect Obamacare Policyholders

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) this week sent out 310,000 demands to Obamacare policyholders to verify their citizenship/immigration eligibility. The prove-it-or-lose-it notices followed failed previous attempts to obtain verification from the individuals. The HHS set a deadline of Sept. 5, 2014. If no verification of eligibliity is supplied by that time, the policies w...
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August 12, 2014
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Obamacare Premiums to Rise Average of 7.5 Percent for 2015, Research Shows

A preliminary analysis by PricewaterhouseCoopers' Health Research Institute predicts that premiums on the Affordable Care Act (ACA) marketplaces will rise an average of 7.5 percent for 2015 policies when open enrollment commences Nov. 15. State by state, a wide gap exists between highest and lowest, with Arkansas at top with a predicted 50 percent increase in premiums, and Arizona bel...
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August 11, 2014
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Elon Musk's SpaceX Sued Under WARN Act for No-Advance-Notice Layoffs

Laid-off employees at the Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX) in Hawthorne, Calif., are taking the Elon Musk-owned company to court over some 200-400 layoffs conducted on or about July 21. The vehicle for the lawsuit is the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) Act, which mandates that companies with 100 or more employees within a 75-mile radius must give 60-days ...
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August 10, 2014
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Oracle Sues Oregon Over ACA Web Problems | WWC

Oracle Corp. has filed suit against the Oregon agency that operated the state's now-defunct Obamacare marketplace website, in the process accusing Gov. John Kitzhaber of trying to systematically "vilify the company in the media." In a 21-page complaint filed with the U.S. District Court for Oregon, Oracle maintains the state continued to work with the company to fix problems...
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August 8, 2014
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Judge Rules College Athletes Own Rights to Their Names and Images

In a case brought to trial against the NCAA (National Collegiate Athletic Association) by former UCLA basketball star Ed O'Bannon, a federal judge has ruled that Division 1 football and basketball players, who were included in the lawsuit, own the rights to their names, images and likenesses. Thus the NCAA and its constituent schools can no longer use their football and basketball pla...
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August 7, 2014
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Most Uninsured Won't Have to Pay Obamacare Penalty | WWC

In addition to the "outs" provided in the Affordable Care Act (ACA) itself, the Obama administration has engineered 14 ways uninsured Americans can avoid paying a penalty for not having health insurance, according to today's Wall Street Journal. An analysis by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) and Joint Committee on Taxation has discovered that about 90 percent of the na...
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August 7, 2014
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OFCCP Issues NPRM to Require Contractors' Detailed Pay Information

The Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) has released a Fact Sheet, FAQs and Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) requiring federal contractors and subcontractors to submit an annual Equal Pay Report on employee compensation. The NPRM would amend the regulations for Executive Order 11246, Equal Employment Opportunity, by adding a requirement that certain federal contract...
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August 7, 2014
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Minnesota Cafe Fights Back: Adds Minimum Wage Charge to Bills

Earlier, we learned that business owners in the SeaTac community of Washington had found innovative ways to combat the effects of a mandated new $15-an-hour minimum wage -- charging for parking, ending free food, making employees pay for uniforms -- and now a Minnesota restaurant has taken the battle to the customers. The Oasis Cafe in Stillwater, Minn., has instituted a 35-charge fo...
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