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Administration Defines Benefits Under Health LawQuicklink submitted by Sheila Samples Permalink,
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The Obama administration took a big step on Tuesday to carry out the new health care law by defining 'essential health benefits' that must be offered to most Americans and by allowing employers to offer much bigger financial rewards to employees who quit smoking or adopt other healthy behaviors. The rules lay out 10 broad categories of essential health benefits, but allow each state to specify the benefits within those categories, at least for 2014 and 2015. Thus, the required benefits will vary from state to state, contrary to what many members of Congress had assumed when the law was adopted. |
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