Obama administration delays part of employer mandate again

[The Straight Story]

The Obama administration Monday delayed part of the Obamacare employer mandate in 2015 and beyond, the latest move to counter a torrent of criticism from the business community about the health law’s impact on employers.

Treasury Department said businesses with fewer than 100 workers would not be required to provide health care to its workers in 2015 or face a fine.

It also gave big businesses with more than 100 workers more time to ramp up coverage.

It’s the second delay in the employer mandate, which was originally supposed to start this year — and it’s sure to set off a new round of political questions about why the individual mandate isn’t being delayed, too.

Small businesses with fewer than 50 workers have always been exempt from the new coverage requirements but the law originally required all other businesses to start covering their workers for face penalties beginning Jan. 1, 2014. The White House last July pushed that start date to 2015, in response to concerted pressure from the business community.

The new policy Treasury announced gives the mid-size businesses — those with 50 to 99 workers - another year to adapt to the changing health care marketplace.

http://www.politico.com/story/2014/02/obamacare-employer-mandate-delay-103338.html?hp=bn

[yeoman6987]

1. Is President Obama comfortable with ACA?

It seems like he keeps wanting to extend the dates on all these deadlines. What about the families that now will have to wait for ACA with their employer. I hear that ACA will save people a lot of money and now the families that have ACA through their employees will have to continue paying more until finally the deadline arrives. I just don't get it.

[JoePhilly]

3. They should be able to go straight to the exchanges.

If you work for a company that does not provide insurance, you can get it via the exchanges. That's always been the case with the ACA.

Before the ACA, if your employer did not provide coverage, you had to go on the "open market" where there was no actual competition, and no exchanges. In most cases now with the ACA, you can get better insurance than you could before. For less.

[bigdarryl]

2. Or is he trying to give the republicans a free talking point

I though I would never say this but I can't wait until this guy and his administration is out of the WH.As Mark Thompson always say this WH has rabbit ears for the republicans.You have democrats running for office this year and he delays this again giving the right another ACA talking point and the media.It makes the WH look like there not even confident on the ACA

[JoePhilly]

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