[Hidden-tech] Mass. healthcare law impact

[Jeremy Dunn]

sorry, www.mahealthconnector.org, not .com

- Jeremy

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jeremy Dunn" <jjdunn at localnet.com>
To: <ama at mltp.com>; "Hidden-Tec List" <hidden-discuss at lists.hidden-tech.net>
Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2007 3:59 PM
Subject: Re: [Hidden-tech] Mass. healthcare law impact


> Aurangzeb,
>
> I think your house-painter may not fully understand the new law, and may 
> have a chance to save his business.
>
> Two important facts:
> 1) the new law only requires employers to establish Sect 125 Cafeteria 
> Plans if they have 11 or more employees
> 2) the law allows "employee-pays-all" plans for part-time and contract 
> employees.
>
> So, if your house painter has 10 or fewer employees then there is nothing 
> to do.
>
> If he has > 10 employees but employs them on a part-time or contract 
> basis, which I'd expect for a house-painter, then he still has to 
> establish a Sect 125 plan which is a time-consuming hassle, but not that 
> expensive.
>
> Check out the "Create a Section 125 Plan - Voluntary" page of 
> www.mahealthconnector.com
> Employers / Voluntary Plan
>
> - Jeremy
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Aurangzeb M. Agha" <ama at mltp.com>
> To: "Hidden-Tec List" <hidden-discuss at lists.hidden-tech.net>
> Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2007 3:39 PM
> Subject: [Hidden-tech] Mass. healthcare law impact
>
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>> We just got a call from the house painter we had hoped to hire for our 
>> house to be painted this August saying that due to the new MA healthcare 
>> law requiring he provide healthcare for all of his employees and his 
>> inability to afford to do so, he's shutting down.
>>
>> Two questions:
>>
>> 1.  How many small co's on this list have looked into this list and will 
>> be impacted?
>>
>> 2.  Does anyone know a good house painter?
>>
>>
>> Rgs,
>>
>> Aurangzeb Agha
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