Healthcare Digest 5/9: Executive Healthcare Could Incur Penalties for Executives

Are you a high-powered executive? Sure, we all are! Hey, did you know that, as a high-powered executive, those perks you get — free health care and better health benefits for you and your family because come on: you’re worth it, right? — are in violation of the anti-discrimination provision in the federal health law?

According to a story in USA Today, “Such advantages could soon trigger fines of up to $500,000.”

The provision says that employers that offer more generous benefits to highly paid workers could face fines of $100 a day for every worker who doesn’t get the perks, up to $500,000.

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