Hi friends! I'm pleased to announce our first ever sponsored blog post - from one of our newest sponsors, Sequoia Consulting Group. We have begun partnering with some of our sponsors to provide informative content to our members - if you're interested in having your company contribute to our blog, please email [email protected] If you're an OrgOrg member with something to say, please email [email protected] Note that all sponsored blog posts will be clearly identified, and all content is subject to OrgOrg Staff review before publishing..
Big thanks to Sequoia for being our first sponsored post! Please read, learn, enjoy, and discuss in the comments! -Kim Rohrer, OrgOrg CEO & Co-Founder
Big thanks to Sequoia for being our first sponsored post! Please read, learn, enjoy, and discuss in the comments! -Kim Rohrer, OrgOrg CEO & Co-Founder
A few months before OrgOrg was born in 2010, President Obama signed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, or ACA. I draw a connection between these two events because the latter has the potential to drastically impact the members of the former.
To borrow a term from OrgOrg’s founders, organization organizers are involved in a lot. You juggle the needs of diverse groups of people and handle with care all the day-to-day necessities in order to keep them humming and purring like the well-oiled machines they all can be. But machines often come with a lot of moving parts to consider, and such is the way for the ACA.
It shouldn’t come as a terrible surprise that the ACA could be overwhelming. This act houses a true reform of a gigantic industry. To put “gigantic” into concrete terms, the US healthcare system alone, at $3 trillion, accounts for almost 20% of the entire US economy. The ACA delves into all facets of this system, including insurance coverage requirements, regulations for small and large businesses, minimum levels of coverage by insurance carriers, preventive care standards, affordability, Medicaid, and so on.
To borrow a term from OrgOrg’s founders, organization organizers are involved in a lot. You juggle the needs of diverse groups of people and handle with care all the day-to-day necessities in order to keep them humming and purring like the well-oiled machines they all can be. But machines often come with a lot of moving parts to consider, and such is the way for the ACA.
It shouldn’t come as a terrible surprise that the ACA could be overwhelming. This act houses a true reform of a gigantic industry. To put “gigantic” into concrete terms, the US healthcare system alone, at $3 trillion, accounts for almost 20% of the entire US economy. The ACA delves into all facets of this system, including insurance coverage requirements, regulations for small and large businesses, minimum levels of coverage by insurance carriers, preventive care standards, affordability, Medicaid, and so on.
When Worlds Collide
So what happens, then, when the onus of pouring through ACA details falls to the office managers, the operations teams, the People Officers, each of whom already work at capacity? We are all about to find out as more small to mid-sized businesses become affected by the ACA legislations that kick in at the end of 2015.
Maybe you haven’t had much time to read through the 20,000 some-odd page (and growing) ACA tome in order to figure out what applies to you. Maybe the questions you’ve been asking have only been met with more questions. Maybe you haven’t even had enough time to ask the questions you need to ask in order to make sense of it all.
Well, we are happy to demystify it for you.
So what happens, then, when the onus of pouring through ACA details falls to the office managers, the operations teams, the People Officers, each of whom already work at capacity? We are all about to find out as more small to mid-sized businesses become affected by the ACA legislations that kick in at the end of 2015.
Maybe you haven’t had much time to read through the 20,000 some-odd page (and growing) ACA tome in order to figure out what applies to you. Maybe the questions you’ve been asking have only been met with more questions. Maybe you haven’t even had enough time to ask the questions you need to ask in order to make sense of it all.
Well, we are happy to demystify it for you.
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