During this web briefing exclusively for journalists, Gary Claxton and Larry Levitt, of the Kaiser Family Foundation’s Program for the Study of Health Reform and Private Insurance, will discuss how the penalties will work, what options employers have for meeting the mandate, how employers might respond, and how these provision could affect coverage and costs for employers and workers.

Conference call to release “Outbreaks: Protecting Americans from Infectious Diseases,” which includes a report card for how well states scored on 10 indicators of strategies to prevent and control infectious disease outbreaks in addition to national and global concerns.