Employer Savings Eyed in Plan to Ease Family Obamacare Subsidies

An IRS proposal that would make it easier for families to get subsidies for health insurance in the Obamacare exchanges would help businesses that would no longer need to pay some of those costs, health insurance brokers say.

The proposal (RIN 1545–BQ16) published in the Federal Register on April 7 would change current regulations to allow family members that qualified to get subsides in the Affordable Care Act exchanges. Currently, family members are excluded from ACA subsidies if anyone in a household has access to an employer-sponsored plan that meets ACA requirements for affordability and coverage, which has been dubbed …