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James Lankford: “If an employer does not provide healthcare at all to an employee, if an employer provides full healthcare, everything…”

On the recordOctober 8, 2013
If an employer does not provide healthcare at all to an employee, if an employer provides full healthcare, everything, except some of the things on the preventative services list that's been identified by HHS, that penalty, if I'm reading this correctly, is $36,500 per employee.
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James Lankford
Republican · Oklahoma

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Lankford discusses penalties for employers regarding healthcare provisions.

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