Last Wednesday, September 18, 2013, Walgreen Company (“Walgreen”) announced its plan to move approximately 160,000 employees to Aon Hewitt’s private health exchange (the “Aon Exchange”) in 2014. This move marks a significant decrease in risk for Walgreen as the company will shift to a defined contribution model for funding its employees’ health insurance. Under the … Continue Reading
For the second time in a week, the federal government has extended deadlines relating to state insurance exchanges. Today was originally the deadline for each state to submit an application to the federal government if the state would be running its own insurance exchange. For any state that does not set up its own exchange, the federal government … Continue Reading
