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ACA International Implications
The 2010 Affordable Care Act (ACA) seeks to impose new requirements for both employers and individuals in terms of health insurance coverage. However, is the ACA affecting globally mobile workers (those on long-term assignment abroad or in the U.S.), is the ACA altering the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program? The details of the ACA provisions are complex and still evolving. The ACA is altering America's healthcare landscape, affecting insurers, individuals, and employers, including the state and federal governments (Kongstvedt, 2013). Among the notable changes include new marketplaces or public exchanges where persons can buy healthcare coverage and penalties on people who lack health insurance. It is believed that penalties on employers failing to provide coverage will take effect by the end of 2015.
In terms of Federal Employees Health Benefits Program, the Act sets in motion for greatest reform in the employer-offered health benefits in the post-World War period. While the time and speed are unpredictable, studies point to a dramatic restructuring of employer-sponsored health benefits accompanying the passage of the Act. It is argued that when employers understand the many new social and economic incentives embedded in the ACA and the choice of restructuring benefits beyond keeping or dropping them, most will make drastic changes. Estimates point that roughly ten percent of employees today covered by employer-sponsored insurance (ESI) will be forced to shift to subsidized exchange plans. Nevertheless, studies focusing on workers across geographies, industries and employer sizes reveal that ACA is provoking a much bigger response.
Probably, thirty percent of the employers will stop providing ESI in the years after 2015
Among the employers who understand the reform, at least fifty percent will seek alternatives to the traditional ESI
Contrary to the prevailing...
Of course, the type and level of the changes companies make will differ by industry, collective-bargaining contracts, and other restrictions. Most companies, however, will find value-creating options between the extreme conditions of eliminating worker coverage of wellness and making no changes to the present offering. Even companies that plan to provide benefits similar to those they currently offer can take no-regrets steps, like developing programs to increase what their workers will value most about ESI. Employers seeking more extreme changes will have to reconsider health benefits offers for higher-income workers (Emanuel, 2015).
For now expats residing overseas are ineligible to buy medical care insurance through any personal plan under the ACA. This is because ACA is targeted on domestic coverage plan policies and is available only to the U.S. citizens. One note is important to bring up in this respect. One of the ACA provisions fully stops insurance providers from discriminating against individual adults with pre-existing circumstances. The American citizens residing overseas with pre-existing or serious medical issues are left out of the opportunity to buy such coverage under the ACA. As such, they should evaluate their present medical policy and follow upcoming law improvements in regards to this issue.
The ACA exempts U.S. expats residing overseas from the…
References
Emanuel, E. J. (2015). Reinventing American Health Care: How the Affordable Care Act Will Improve Our Terribly Complex, Blatantly Unjust, Outrageously Expensive, Grossly Inefficient, Error Prone System. Perseus Books Group
Herzlinger, R. E. (2004). Consumer-Driven Health Care Implications for Providers, Payers, and Policy-Makers. Hoboken, John Wiley & Sons.
Selker, H. P., & Wasser, J. S. (2014). The Affordable Care Act as a National Experiment: Health Policy Innovations and Lessons. Springer Science & Business Media
Kongstvedt, P. R. (2013). Essentials of Managed Health Care. Burlington, MA, Jones and Bartlett Learning.
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