Day: October 2, 2015

Asserta Health provides enabling infrastructure for “cash” health plans that deliver significant cost savings by eliminating the “value drain” associated with the typical payment process. The entire healthcare transaction is simplified, transparent, and supported by a service model that effectively frees clinical and financial resources to focus on improving the cost, quality, and efficiency of the care itself. The result is a better healthcare experience—and outcome—for the consumer, the provider and the payer.

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AUSTIN, Texas, October 1, 2015 — Associated Builders and Contractors (ABC) and Fringe Benefit Group today announced the expansion of The Contractors Plan, a benefits platform designed specifically for construction contractors, to include a full suite of benefits including ACA-compliant major medical, dental, vision, life, disability, retirement and HRA plans – all managed through a single online platform.

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 Diane Mullen

“There needs to be some kind of investigation, that way there is transparency at Harlandale,” says Julie Gimbel, President of the Harlandale Educational Association, the union which represents teachers.

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I just got the first year bill from my payroll company for the extra reporting we have to do each year vis a vis Obamacare:  $7195.50 for 2015.  Note that this adds absolutely no value — this is not the cost of insurance or cost of any extra taxes sent to Uncle Sam.  This is merely the cost to handle all the new paperwork required in the law.

I will repeat what I have said before — the Republicans tend to focus narrowly on taxes and often tend to miss or downplay the regulatory issues, which I think actually loom larger in destroying economic growth.

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