{"id":12010,"date":"2018-10-23T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-10-23T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/2018\/10\/23\/white-house-unveils-new-insurance-option-for-small-firms\/"},"modified":"2018-10-24T16:01:44","modified_gmt":"2018-10-24T16:01:44","slug":"white-house-unveils-new-insurance-option-for-small-firms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/2018\/10\/23\/white-house-unveils-new-insurance-option-for-small-firms\/","title":{"rendered":"White House Unveils New Insurance Option for Small Firms"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Plan expands health reimbursement arrangements so workers can buy individual health coverage<\/h3>\n<p><b><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b><\/b><\/p>\n<p>TUESDAY, Oct. 23, 2018 (HealthDay News) &#8212; A plan to allow small businesses to use tax-free accounts to provide health coverage for employees was announced today by the Trump administration.<\/p>\n<p>The plan would expand health reimbursement arrangements so workers could buy their own individual health coverage, the <i>Associated Press<\/i> reported.<\/p>\n<p>The accounts could also be paired with workplace health plans to help workers obtain other benefits such as dental care.<\/p>\n<p>Critics say the plan will enable employers to find ways to move workers with high health care costs from their business policies to individual insurance, the <i>AP<\/i> reported. The plan includes protections for workers, according to administration officials.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.apnews.com\/9d3b9582337d4669a4a367450701fa4c\" target=\"_new\"><i>AP News<\/i> Article<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dol.gov\/newsroom\/releases\/ebsa\/ebsa20181023\" target=\"_new\">More Information<\/a><\/p>\n<p><i><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Copyright \u00a9 2018 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.healthday.com\/\" target=\"_new\">HealthDay<\/a>. All rights reserved.<\/i> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Plan expands health reimbursement arrangements so workers can buy individual health coverage<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":12026,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[11],"class_list":["post-12010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12010","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12010"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12010\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}