From FoxNews.com:
Obamacare Employer Mandate Delayed Until After Midterms
By Mike Dorning and Alex Wayne
Businesses won’t be penalized next year if they don’t provide workers health insurance after the Obama administration decided to delay a key requirement under its health-care law, two administration officials said.
The decision will come in regulatory guidance to be issued later this week. It addresses vehement complaints from employer groups about the administrative burden of reporting requirements, though it may also affect coverage provided to some workers.
Let me be blunt: any number of multiple local, state and federal agencies have NO idea how to enable the betrayal that ObamaKare has become.
Continuing to Implement the ACA in a Careful, Thoughtful Manner
By: Mark J. Mazur
7/2/2013
Over the past several months, the Administration has been engaging in a dialogue with businesses – many of which already provide health coverage for their workers – about the new employer and insurer reporting requirements under the Affordable Care Act (ACA). We have heard concerns about the complexity of the requirements and the need for more time to implement them effectively. We recognize that the vast majority of businesses that will need to do this reporting already provide health insurance to their workers, and we want to make sure it is easy for others to do so. We have listened to your feedback. And we are taking action.
Yes, this is a break. But a break that has been crafted in order to acquire some more centrist coalitions on diversity?
If you like your plan and your doctor, you can keep them, correct?
Or perhaps you cannot.
The delay: is this a good thing or a bad thing?
BZ
This delay is not a good thing. Sadly, the people that voted for the nonsense need to start feeling the pain NOW, so that when the elections come, they will know what they are voting for or voting out.
Agree completely. The Democrats are scared of the impact on mid term elections.
Bingo.
BZ
Delay the pain, bail out those too big to fail. Anyone see a pattern here?
BZ
Of course they delayed it, otherwise ALL of their asses would have been voted out of office… And apparently United Health Care (largest provider in CA) is bailing out of the personal health care market…
NFO, I think I read something about that in passing. . .
BZ
More proof that they don’t know what they are doing. I do believe they are making things up as they go along.
I also wonder about the timing of this, coming as it does hot on the heels of Sen Cruz’s schooling of his fellow senators and the immigration reform issue. I can’t believe it is just coincidence and that whole ‘we have listened to your feedback’ is just bs to delude ‘us’ into thinking, why, how nice, they really do care.
Baloney.
WHO, Abigail, can claim to be able to wrap their hands and / or their brains around a bill that is thousands of pages in length?
It’s to DELAY the implementation of this DISASTER and to PROTECT those Demorats whose re-election depends upon the party being seen as helpful, not destructive, as ObamaKare clearly is.
BZ
P.S.
Plus, they have NO frakking idea as to how to truly implement ObakaKare.