NJSpotlight reports that New Jersey small business and residents who buy insurance through the state’s health benefit exchange could wind up with a plan similar to what many small businesses offer their employees. Read here: http://www.njspotlight.com/stories/13/02/20/expect-to-pay-more-for-policies-purchased-on-state-health-benefit-exchange/.
With healthcare costs expected to he high on the insurance exchange, employers will be squeezed. Many will be faced with [...]
New Jersey is a small business state. About 95% of the state’s businesses, or 249,448 firms, employ 50 or fewer employees. These firms employ eight out of ten working people in the state, or nearly 1.36 million people. Thus, most of the adult citizens who are uninsured are employed, primarily by a small business.
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Stretched to the limit, unable to push more of the costs onto employees, and strangled by state regulations that limit choices, many employers are being forced to consider the dreadful decision of discontinuing health care for some or all of their employees.
In September 2010, New Jersey received a grant from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to lay the foundation for the creation of an Insurance Exchange which is mandated by the Affordable Care Act. An Exchange is a mechanism for organizing the health insurance marketplace to help consumers and small businesses shop for [...]
One of the biggest fiscal problems facing the Christie administration – and there are many – is the insolvency of the Unemployment Compensation Trust Fund.
On January 19th, New Jersey will have a new governor – Chris Christie.
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