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| Prof. Michael McConnell (Stanford) on the Hobby Lobby arguments | |
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| Berton | Mar 30 2014, 08:37 AM Post #11 |
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"Only individuals eligible for employer-provided major medical coverage can be offered the health FSA. "Employers with health FSAs must have an underlying ACA-compliant group health insurance plan. Try reading your own link for a change. |
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| colo_crawdad | Mar 30 2014, 09:19 AM Post #12 |
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I read the ENTIRE linked material with some real time personal experience. Berton's cherry picking and lack of real time experience does not impress me. |
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| Berton | Mar 30 2014, 09:28 AM Post #13 |
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If you did then you know that it does not apply to the Hobby Lobby case unless you expect Hobby Lobby to pay more money out complying with the FSA regulations than they pay out for health insurance now. Is that the case you are presenting? |
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| Berton | Mar 30 2014, 09:46 AM Post #14 |
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"True, some of Hobby Lobby’s employees might be eligible for subsidies, which in theory might lower its costs. But those subsidies depend on information an employer does not have – family size and income – and employers cannot pay different amounts to workers based on these factors. To make all of its employees whole, Hobby Lobby would have to assume none will receive subsidies. In short, if Hobby Lobby drops insurance, it would not simply pay a $2,000 “tax.” Requiring it to cease providing insurance would cause massive disruption to Hobby Lobby’s employees, major uncertainty for its business, and cost millions of dollars in taxes and salaries beyond what it was previously paying just for insurance. It is easy to see how imposing such a choice constitutes a substantial burden—which is likely why the government never raised the issue, and the courts of appeals never considered it." |
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