White House delays health insurance mandate for medium-sized employers until 2016
By Juliet Eilperin and Amy Goldstein, Monday, February 10, 4:15 PM

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.

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Quote: Cincinnatus wrote in post #2

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This mess of a law is continuing to resemble some sort of Rube Goldberg legal creation. In addition, Obama is only doing this to avoid any negative publicity caused by ObamaCare during the coming elections.

Moreover, where does Obama get the authority to alter constantly (at least 27 times) and unilaterally an existing law? And where are the hopeless and hapless Republicans when it comes to this? I know the hopelessly partisan Democrat Senate will block any move by the House to oppose him, but Boehner and Co could a least pass a measure condemning his actions. But, no, true to current Republican spinelessness the House does nothing.

My friends, we do live in troubled times.

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