Crumble: The Disastrous Obamacare Delay to Try and Save 2014

Posted on 5 July, 2013 by clyde

The Townhall.com is reporting that Katie covered the breaking news last evening — a classic bad news dump on the front end of a long holiday weekend. The administration is out of luck if it hopes their major announcement will disappear amidst hot dogs and parades; we’ll be talking about this move for the next year-and-a-half:
The Obama administration will delay a crucial provision of its signature health-care law, giving businesses an extra year to comply with a requirement that they provide their workers with insurance. The government will postpone enforcement of the so-called employer mandate until 2015, after the congressional elections, the administration said yesterday. Under the provision, companies with 50 or more workers face a fine of as much as $3,000 per employee if they don’t offer affordable insurance. It’s the latest setback for a health-care law that has met resistance from Republicans, who have sought to make the plan a symbol of government overreach. Republican-controlled legislatures and governors in several states have refused funding to expand Medicaid coverage for the poor and declined to set up exchanges where individuals can buy insurance, leaving the job to the federal government. The delay in the employer mandate addresses complaints from business groups to President Barack Obama’s administration about the burden of the law’s reporting requirements.
If the White House had listened to business owners before passing this law, they wouldn’t be mopping up their own mess today because Obamacare wouldn’t exist. This development also marks the death of Democrats’ bogus “Republican obstructionism” excuse-making. (It was always bogus because (a) the exclusively Democrat-written and -passed law allowed states to opt out of setting up exchanges, and (b) the mandatory Medicaid expansion element was struck down by seven Supreme Court justices). Now we have the Obama administration delaying a (second) major component of its own law due to a combination of incompetence, admitted economic harm and political considerations.
Read more at Townhall.com
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