Five things to know about how the health care overhaul affects people who get their insurance coverage through work. The law requires companies with 50 or more workers to offer their full-time staff — defined as 30 hours a week or more — health insurance. A tax on high-cost health plans begins in 2018, but many companies already are starting to trim benefits to ahead of the tax. Most health plans are required to cover several forms of preventive care without charging patients an upfront cost like a co-payment. The law may prompt some companies to drop coverage for their part-time workers and send them to public health insurance exchanges.
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