Friday, October 18, 2013

Obamacare forum raises questions about Oct. 1 small business deadline

By Glynis Kazanjian
Glynis@MarylandReporter.com

Will Farmer, an Air Force veteran with a cyber security business based in Hanover, took diligent notes and asked direct questions while attending a health care forum for small businesses last month  in Laurel. The forum was designed to help small business owners better understand new laws soon to set in under Obamacare.

While small businesses are not required under the new health care law to offer health insurance to their employees, they are required to notify all employees about the new health insurance marketplace available in their state by Oct. 1.

A majority of Farmer’s employees live in Virginia and Washington, D.C., and he needed to know if he was also supposed to include information about the health insurance marketplaces where his employees reside.

“I never got that question answered,” Farmer said.


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