Washington Post: White House delays employer mandate requirement until 2015

[SkinsHokieFan]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/07/02/white-house-delays-employer-mandate-requirement-until-2015/

 

 

White House delays employer mandate requirement until 2015

 

The Obama administration will not penalize businesses that do not provide health insurance in 2014, the Treasury Department announced Tuesday.

Instead, it will delay enforcement of a major Affordable Care Act requirement that all employers with more than 50 employees provide coverage to their workers until 2015.

The administration said it would postpone the provision after hearing significant concerns from employers about the challenges of implementing it.

“We have heard concerns about the complexity of the requirements and the need for more time to implement them effectively,” Mark Mazur, Assistant Secretary for Tax Policy, wrote in a late Tuesday blog post. “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.”

 

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[88Comrade2000]

Oh really?  Or is it really just postponing things until after the 2014 elections.

 

 

They should've just expanded Medicare into Americare and gave everyone a basic level of coverage paid through taxes.

[skinsmarydu]

We want a public option, won't get it.  Georgia won't even accept the law.  And it's been shown recently that the people the ACA was designed to help (the working poor) are still going to be left out in the cold. 

It sucks that our elected officials can't do a better job of governing.  They'd just rather keep saying no to everything.  Mitch McConnell & John Cornyn sent letters to the commish last week to lobby against the endorsement of the ACA by the NFL and NASCAR.  Since when did they give a crap about sports politics?

[Slateman]

Oh really?  Or is it really just postponing things until after the 2014 elections.

 

 

They should've just expanded Medicare into Americare and gave everyone a basic level of coverage paid through taxes.

FPNI

[Bliz]

Mitch McConnell & John Cornyn sent letters to the commish last week to lobby against the endorsement of the ACA by the NFL and NASCAR.  Since when did they give a crap about sports politics?

 

IIRC the NFL wasn't going to be endorsing the ACA.  It's already the law.  There's nothing to endorse.  It was going to be more along the lines of "this is what you have to do to comply, and look it's so easy..."  Sports leagues should be staying out of the politics of endorsing one thing or another.  Bad for business. 

 

I agree with RDSkins2000 that it sounds like a PR move so they can get past the mid-term elections without Pubs blaming every blip of negative economic data onthe employer mandate.

 

I think the Exchange is going to surprise a lot of people.  That once they go on and use it, they'll decide that it's much better than the way they were shopping for insurance in the past.  I had to spend an hour the other day on an insurance application.  It was ridiculous and awful.