Health care is about to get even more complicated

By Marty Carpenter, ksl.com Contributor

September 5th, 2013 @ 8:06pm

SALT LAKE CITY Over the past few weeks, I've had the opportunity to discuss the upcoming changes to health care with several experts as the Affordable Care Act (ACA) rolls into full effect. Through those discussions the one thing I have learned is that if you think health care is about to get simpler, you're in for a bit of a shock.

"I don't think health care was ever simple," says Terry Buckner, president and CEO of The Buckner Company, a health insurance broker. "Any time you have a transaction that involves an employee, their employer, their medical provider and a health insurance carrier, it's a complex transaction. Now you add on top of that the IRS to regulate it and some mandates by the federal government as to what your insurance should look like-- it certainly becomes complex."

- Terry Buckner, president and CEO, The Buckner Company

Many of Buckner's clients are still unclear about how the ACA will affect their business or if it has to affect their business at all.

"It absolutely impacts every business," says Buckner. He says large employers have mandates they now have to navigate while small businesses have varying requirements about when they have to provide coverage.

Buckner says navigating health care today without some help is as crazy as a large business trying to do its own taxes. "Right nowmore than everthe expertise is huge."

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