DALLAS – Mountain View College has partnered with Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas and Capital One Bank to offer a free community forum to help small business owners navigate the open enrollment process scheduled to launch Oct. 1.
Self-employed entrepreneurs, small business owners, human resource managers, CFOs and healthcare executives are invited to attend this free event happening Aug. 1 from 10 a.m. to noon located inside the Economic and Workforce Development Center at 4849 W. Illinois Avenue Building B in Dallas.
White House leaders report the Affordable Care Act (ACA) will make health care more affordable to businesses, government, and American families. However, figuring out how to navigate the new Healthcare Marketplace, formerly known as the “exchange,” will require some small business owners, managers and financial officers to find outside help.
The Affordable Care Act (ACA) mandates that employers provide healthcare coverage for themselves and their employees or pay penalties. President Obama’s Administration recently announced the effective date will be pushed to 2015.
“Economic development and workforce challenges are areas our team focuses on to help our local community. We feel this event is needed to help de-mystify the new law and help our local small businesses learn how the act may impact their business and help employers understand how they can help their employees choose coverage that is right for them,” states Patricia Webb, Executive Dean of Economic and Workforce Development at Mountain View College.
The event will showcase a panel of experts from the United States Health and Human Services, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas, Capital One Bank and special guest speaker Herbert Austin, District Director for the Small Business Administration Dallas/Fort Worth District Office. Kent Eastman, Texas Market President for Capital One Bank will facilitate the panel discussion. Presenters will share information on how to navigate the enrollment website, how to select coverage, and how the act may impact a small business’ bottom line.
Tickets are available now and are free to the public. Attendees can visit www.mvcewd.ticketleap.com/affordablehealthcare to learn more or to register to attend.
Too much insurance is the problem.
Imagine lunch or shoe insurance, the costs would be hundreds of dollars for lunch and shoes, then everyone would HAVE to have lunch and shoe insurance, and the working class would have to fund the whole project with those who don’t work getting it all for free.
The problem with insurance is that insurance companies MUST pay the bill, no matter how high. The market place is short-circuited.
Better system: The government just pay for a minimal standard, keeping us alive, perhaps we’ll have to wait in line, etc. If you want premium health-care and a surgeon level doctor to sit and talk with you and clip your nails, you can work for that. Change the laws to permit paramedics and extra trained nurses to do the 90% of the load that our surgeon level super-doctors do, as it is, any bum off the street is entitled to a surgeon consult for any whim, and that’s the standard.
Let medics and nurses do the bulk of the work, provide a free government healthcare minimum (we already do anyway) cut out the insurance rich man who takes a giant cut (notice all the expensive commercials everywhere for insurance?).
The whole thing as it is is a scam deal between the rich insurance people, the rich doctors, and our government masters who take bribes to keep the laws such that we have to pay hundreds of dollars just to get an ointment we already knew we needed.