White House delays health insurance mandate for medium-sized employers until 2016

[HTFOff]

Another delay that is 100% arbitrary. There seems to be a pattern here.

The Obama administration announced Monday it would give medium-sized employers an extra year, until 2016, before they must offer health insurance to their full-time workers.

Firms with at least 100 employees will have to start offering this coverage in 2015.

By offering an unexpected grace period to businesses with between 50 and 99 employees, administration officials are hoping to defuse another potential controversy involving the 2010 health-care law, which has become central to Republicans’ campaign to make political gains in this year’s midterm election.

Even the nation’s largest employers got a significant concession: They can avoid a fine by offering coverage to 70 percent of their full-time employees in 2015 and 95 percent starting in 2016. Under an earlier proposal, employers with at least 50 employees would have been required to offer insurance, beginning 2015, to 95 percent of those who work 30 hours or more a week, along with their dependents.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/natio...e6b344-9279-11e3-84e1-27626c5ef5fb_story.html

 

[Attic]

Worst part is all the changes made to everything but they are still sticking it to individuals by not delaying the individual mandate.


Anyways, obvious move to keep dem support through the midterm elections shielded from the shitbag that is containing/concealing the results of full implementation of the ACA.

So initially it locked business below 50 employees from hiring more, now it'll do the same but for businesses up to 100.

 

[Jhhnn]

Worst part is all the changes made to everything but they are still sticking it to individuals by not delaying the individual mandate.

Yeh, sticking it to 'em by subsidizing the vast majority. And really putting the bone to all the people who now qualify for medicaid in sanely governed states.

Horrifying, huh?

 

[theeedude]

Good to see the so called "individual responsibility" Republicans make equivalent the requirement that individuals carry health insurance for themselves with requirement that businesses provide health insurance for their employees.

 

[Doppel]

Get bill passed, back away from it. Sad.