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Posted on 11/27/2013 11:14:58 AM PST by Red Steel
President Barack Obama will announce another Affordable Care Act deadline delay on Wednesday, pushing back the online enrollment for small businesses until after the 2014 midterm elections.
According to a Health and Human Services memo obtained by Politico, the Obama administration will delay mandate for small businesses to purchase health insurance for their employees on the federal exchanges until November of next year.
“We’ve concluded that we can best serve small employers by continuing this offline process while we concentrate on both creating a smoothly functioning online experience in the SHOP Marketplace, and adding key new features, including an employee choice option and premium aggregation services, by November 2014,” the HHS notice said.
Small businesses were granted permission to sign up for health care through paper applications for a limited amount of time beginning Oct. 1. In the wake of the poorly-designed HealthCare.gov website that has continued to malfunction since its launch, businesses will be given that privilege for another year, along with options to enroll through third parties or insurers directly.
This is the second time the administration has delayed enrollment in the federally-run SHOP small business exchange. The first time was just days before the law’s major launch on Oct. 1, when officials said it would be ready “sometime in November.” The administration gave a similar deadline for the federal individual exchange website after the extent of its problems began coming to light. Now it appears neither will meet that deadline.
The delay will apply to three-dozen states dependent on the federal SHOP exchange, while states managing their own exchanges, with relatively few problems to speak of, will stick to the original deadline.
Such a delay could be a purposefully timed political strategy aimed at appeasing congressional Democrats facing re-election in 2014. Those that have supported the law before, during, and after its passage have been facing tough questions in their home states recently about unrealistic deadlines, information hiccups, cancelled policies, privacy concerns and general inability to sign up since the fully-fumbled roll-out of the law’s major components.
Many Democrats may have been unable to overcome another Obamacare-related liability in the midst of an election year.
Many of the issues have proved a lot of the president’s favorite talking points about his premiere legislation over the last three years to be untrue – including the ones he sold to congressional Democrats to ensure the law’s passage in 2010, before they lost control of the House of Representatives in a midterm election.
This country is so doomed beyond repair.
Obamacare MUST be repealed.
People are dying out there.
This crap is so illegal, but the problem is showing standing to sue.
With a wave of the hand, Obastard ignores another law.
Last week they hadn’t even written the payment portion of the Aca. That is one of the most crucial parts. No payment, no coverage.
Taking a count now of all of the conservatives with their thumbs up their collective rears ...
What the memo seems to be say is the ObamaCare website will not be ready till November 2014!
On another front, the 'nuclear deal' with Iran is a total farce. Iran keeps going business as usual yet gets their frozen assets unfrozen. Jarrett helping Iran get their billions back while changing NOTHING regarding their nuke development is criminal!
I expect Israel/Saudis to deliver Iran a few holiday gifts soon, from on high to the desert sands below.
You said...
“This country is so doomed beyond repair”
At the time it appears to be so. And we are beyond the point of being able to correct many of this stuff without pain.
But the sun does eventually come out again even after the worst of storms
Until liberalism is struck a mortal blow, the sun you see is merely a hole in a cloudy sky.
The forecast is for mostly cloudy skies for as long as cen be projected, including if we win in 2014 and 2016
Amazing isn’t it?
Aren’t these dates written specifically into the law? Since when does the President (or anyone) have the ability to say “It’s ok, just ignore that line”?
That should be the Republican ad for every single district in the country.
“Aren’t these dates written specifically into the law? Since when does the President (or anyone) have the ability to say “It’s ok, just ignore that line”?”
That’s what the 27,000 pages of regulations are for.
All it does is remove the mandate on the process, ie: sign up via website. They have merely been granted permission to sign up as best they can via paper direct with the insurance companies.
Likely, the administration figured out that they have no need of the personal information from small business owners. They already have it and these folks aren’t going to vote for Democrats, anyway.
message to Boehner: The LAW does not allow this.
So what are you going to do about it?
The Constitution says to impeach a President for high crimes. To disobey the law and create new ones yourself is a high crime.
You should be removed for not following the Constitution if you do not initiate impeachment proceedings.
FU Soetoro, you piece of f’ing whale Shiite.
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