11/24/13 - The Affordable Care Act will change the healthcare landscape, and the Hamburg Township board is keeping costs down for its employees while it can. The board voted to approve an opt out of a state-wide act that requires all public employees to pay 20% of their health insurance costs. Supervisor Pat Hohl says this has been done since the act was passed in 2011. Hamburg employees pay 9% of their insurance costs, and Hohl says the board considers this to be appropriate given their compensation. However, with the large and complex Affordable Care Act preparing to take effect, officials from many municipalities, including Hamburg, are having difficulty understanding the implications of the law. Hohl says he and other township leaders have spent a lot of time looking at the act, but there is still a lot of discussion about how the act will play out and what amendments will be added. He says it is very difficult to predict exactly how the healthcare landscape will look when major changes take effect on January 1st of 2016. (TD)
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