Distant time to us its a vastly different time we sit here today and say 2018 it will be upon us rapidly and people are saying we consider the election that will take care of it all thats a foolish position to be in im pleased to see were spending time to get an advanced understanding and important popular the regulations are not complete so the degree we have through our Coalition Partners and other founders what understand and bring to bear some clarity about what the regulations are going to although they could be issued any day i hope we can find partnerships to try to get clarity rather than assuming well, you know the election is going to take care of it or the repeal or congress some other wish list of disasters or probabilities thank you for your work. Just a comment the excise tax is the final nail to get employers to drop health care under the Affordable Health care act why wouldnt most employers do that it appears that would be moved. The penalty on the other side. How much.
Numbers could be grossly expand if he were to allow whatever the market would bear so in terms of explaining to employees and retirees the importance of keeping our hospital developments down have approved complications in 2018 in taxes and i think hence blild action now in 2015 is it would be too late if they did it in 2017 for 2018 so our actions the board of supervisors actions the whole idea of anti explosive rate setting of keeping rates down is really going to hit us if theyre National Successful in norwalk the same kind of rate trend weve had in the past few years. Thank you other comments pr any Public Comment on this item . If not weve proceeded to the next item other Public Comment i should say please. Item 18 opportunity to place items on future agenda autopsy do i have any. We have the closed session we deferred from today and is there anything else. And theres others. We have item before 17 he did it before blue shield. Were going to cocky absolutely will come back to that
That in and of itself is representing theres taxes over time thats important for the board to be aware of as i mentioned the increased threshold for highrisk occupations and premeditatedly retirees so the previous slides we said Health Care Premiums and the coverage is much more broad so currently or current the law suggests that the tax includes medical both fully insured and selfit you funded vision and dental and also contributions to medical that spending accounts be as much as medical care and flexibility e flexible spending accounts the board should note in our initial analysis we didnt clubbed that but have the information in the appendix at this time weve not included did p p 0 for dental with the summaries that the board will consider changing the funding mechanism of the dental p po at the time of implementation as written would suggest that the board change the funding most povrl at this time regulations have not been promulgated for the implementation of taxes what was writ
Suggests that the tax includes medical both fully insured and selfit you funded vision and dental and also contributions to medical that spending accounts be as much as medical care and flexibility e flexible spending accounts the board should note in our initial analysis we didnt clubbed that but have the information in the appendix at this time weve not included did p p 0 for dental with the summaries that the board will consider changing the funding mechanism of the dental p po at the time of implementation as written would suggest that the board change the funding most povrl at this time regulations have not been promulgated for the implementation of taxes what was written in the actual law when was was passed weve not seen more guidance there are questions about the provisions written in the law but unfortunately, we have not had any further guidance so one important regulation that we do use in our analysis is that the law mentions you can blend similar medical and medicare retir
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