Partner Pete Dickinson recently spoke at the 8th Annual ABA Labor and Employment Conference in Los Angeles

Nov 21, 2014

Partner Pete Dickinson recently spoke at the 8^th Annual ABA Labor and Employment Conference in Los Angeles on the fast changing health care environment for Taft Hartley Plans under the Affordable Care Act.  On the same day as he spoke, the US Supreme Court granted cert in the important issue of whether ACA was intended to provide premium tax credits (subsidy)  to low income workers purchasing health insurance on exchanges established by the federal government, as distinguished from health care exchanges created by the separate states.  The exact language of the ACA’s subsidy provisions does not specifically mention the federal exchanges giving rise to the conflicting appellate court decisions invalidating the subsidies (Halbig v. Burwell – DC Circuit invalidates the premium tax credit v. King v. Burwell – 4^th Circuit upholds the tax credit).

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