WH delays implementation of equal coverage provsion thus enabling corporations to

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"Gee, I wonder which way it will go... employees to get better coverage or the executives get worse?"

...will likely go. When the rules are finally written, and the provision goes into effect, employers and the media will scream (just as they did about the cancellation letters) that it's unfair, that the fee is excessive.

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“Under the Affordable Care Act, for the first time, all group health plans will be prohibited from offering coverage only to their highest-paid employees,” said Erin Donar, a Treasury spokeswoman. “The Departments of Health and Human Services, Labor and the Treasury are working on rules that will implement this requirement.”

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Under the 2010 law, an employer that has a fully insured health plan that discriminates in favor of high-paid executives could face a steep penalty: an excise tax of $100 a day for each individual affected negatively.

Thus, if a company had 100 employees and its health plan were found to discriminate in favor of 15 executives, the employer could be subject to a tax penalty of $8,500 for each day of noncompliance, for the 85 employees discriminated against. If the discrimination continued for 10 days, the penalty could be as much as $85,000.

If a company with 60 employees failed to meet the new standards with respect to half its employees for a year, it could face a penalty of $1 million.

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http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/19/us/rules-for-equal-coverage-by-employers-remain-elusive-under-health-law.html