Another Obamacare mandate that was supposed to have kicked in by now has been delayed indefinitely. Why? The IRS is having difficulty writing guidance for it.
The mandate in question is the reform law’s nondiscrimination requirement, which is supposed to prevent health plans from discriminating in favor of highly compensated employees by offering them benefits not open to their lesser-paid counterparts.
In a nutshell, the intent of the law was to create equal coverage for everyone under the same employer.
The problem, however, is that the feds have yet to release guidance on the mandate and have been saying for years that the nondiscrimination rules won’t kick in until the guidance has been issued.
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