Health Care Reform

The new Health Care Reform has created a bit of confusion for many contractors.  When working on prevailing wage and Davis-Bacon jobs, health insurance is usually the least of your worries.  All of the paperwork and regulations that have to be followed while on these jobs is enough to think about.  Keeping current on the minutiae of health care policy can sometimes feel like it's just too much - which is why we wanted to let y

With all of the changes that new Health Care Reform has brought this year, many contractors and their Davis-Bacon and prevailing wage employees have questions.  One of the biggest questions that employee's may have is “how does the new dependent coverage affect me and my dependents?”  We hope that the information we have gathered below may help shed some light on the subject.

If you’re doing Davis-Bacon or prevailing wage work that means you’re probably providing your prevailing wage employees with health benefits. And if you’re paying for health benefits, then you’re probably wondering how the Health Care Reform bill will affect you.

Unless you've been hiding under a rock or living on another planet, you are no doubt aware that Health Care Reform legislation was signed into law by President Obama on March 23, 2010.  As you likely also know, this new legislation promises to bring many changes to our health care system over the next several years.  Some of these changes will occur immediately, some over the course of the rest of the year, some in 2011, 2012, 2013.  2014 will bring a host of changes and some items are scheduled as far out as 2018.