Speaker:  Larry Grudzien (Healthcare Reform)

Click on the following link to see Larry's bio:

http://www.dahuonline.com/files/Larry Grudzien's bio.pdf

Sponsor: Envision Healthcare

Envision Healthcare is a new kind of healthcare company.
We have developed a healthcare solution that brings patients and their provider into the actual financial process of controlling costs. Our plans generally save employers an average of 40% in annual premium while still allowing patients to have a benefits-rich and comprehensive healthcare plan.

On July 26, 2010, the Illinois Department of Insurance will implement the State-Based Systems (SBS) licensing system. 

        SBS will allow producer licensing functions to be completed electronically through a web-based system.  Through SBS, an insurance producer will be able to register immediately, without paperwork delays, and at any time, on any day.

Click the following link for details:

dahuonline.com/files/Producer Licensing Implementation SBS(3).doc

Unum chimes in on the real price of health reform and just who will pay for it.

http://forms.unum.com/StreamPDF.aspx?strURL=/FMS_108688-1.pdf&strAudience=StreamByNumber

Here is a letter that NAHU sent to Sens. Baucus (D-MT) and Landrieu (D-LA) on their Small Business Jobs Act of 2010, specifically regarding a provision allowing the deductibility of health insurance for the purposes of calculating self-employment tax. 

As many know, this has long been a NAHU legislative priority.

Under current law, business owners are not permitted to deduct the cost of health insurance for themselves and their family members for purposes of calculating self-employment tax. This provision would allow business owners to deduct the cost of health insurance incurred in 2010 for themselves and their family members in the calculation of their 2010 self-employment tax.

This legislation may well be considered soon.

More information on the bill can be accessed at the links below:

http://finance.senate.gov/newsroom/chairman/release/?id=b7c67e81-801a-4485-ac7b-5582806a6191

http://finance.senate.gov/legislation/details/?id=da799068-5056-a032-5229-92cebbd2b7a0

Click the following link to see the letter:

dahuonline.com/files/NAHU Self-Employment Tax Equity Support_July 2010 FINAL (2).pdf