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• 04.07.2021The Biden Administration’s Health Insurance Priorities The Biden Administration wasted no time in implementing some of the new President’s campaign promises relating to health insurance and the Affordable Care Act (“ACA”).
• 11.12.2020Patrick McGovern and Gina Schneider Comment on Likely Biden Administration Health Care and Immigration Policy Changes in HR Daily Advisor Article Firm Partner Patrick W. McGovern and Counsel Gina M. Schneider discuss potential changes the Biden administration could bring to the workplace in a recent HR Daily Advisor article, “Employers Exploring What Changes a Biden Administration Will Bring.”
• 11.05.2020Patrick McGovern and Gina Schneider Weigh In on Potential Effects the Election Could Have on the Affordable Care Act and Immigration Law in HR Daily Advisor Partner Patrick W. McGovern and Counsel Gina M. Schneider were recently interviewed for a timely article in HR Daily Advisor entitled “Employers Looking for Answers as Presidential Election Winds Down.”
• 09.01.2020Federal Court Judge Block Blocks Temporarily HHS’s Enforcement of Revised ACA Anti-Sex Discrimination Rules, Restores ACA Protections for LGBTQ Individuals On August 17, 2020 the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of N.Y. preliminarily enjoined the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) from enforcing provisions of its June 2020 final Section 1557 regulations (“2020 Rules”) which were slated to take effect the next day. The 2020 Rules, in part, interpret the Affordable Care Act’s prohibition of sex discrimination as excluding discrimination based on gender identity and sex stereotyping, which is contrary to the interpretation under the Obama-era rule.
• 07.28.2020ACA Attacked By Left and Right; New Jersey’s Response After the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, in a 2-1 decision last December, declared the Affordable Care Act’s (ACA’s) individual health insurance mandate unconstitutional as a result of Congress’ elimination of the mandate’s financial penalty in the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 (“TCJA”) and sent the case back to the district court to decide the issue in Texas v. United States, numerous state attorneys general asked the U.S. Supreme Court to review the Fifth Circuit’s decision.
• 01.21.2020Uncertain Fate of Affordable Care Act and 2017 Rules Creating New Exemptions to ACA’s Contraception Coverage Requirements; New Jersey’s Response On December 18, 2019 the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, in a 2-1 decision which the court revised on January 9, declared the Affordable Care Act’s (ACA’s) individual health insurance mandate unconstitutional as a result of Congress’ elimination of the mandate’s financial penalty in the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 (“TCJA”), but declined to invalidate ACA in its entirety and sent the case back to the district court to decide the issue.