Providers as employers
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Ted Goins, president and CEO of Lutheran Services Carolinas, spends a lot of time focused on the Affordable Care Act’s regulations for providers of nursing care. But the health-care reform law also affects LSC is another way: as an employer.
Starting in 2014, large employers—those with more than 50 full-time employees—must offer them affordable health insurance that meets a minimum quality standard. If employees instead use tax credits or subsidies to obtain coverage in the new insurance exchanges, employers must pay tax penalties. Requiring employers to offer good insurance is an important part of the ACA’s coverage expansion. But many nonprofits—a sector that employs 10 percent of the nation’s workforce—are concerned about this mandate.
