White House delays ANOTHER Obamacare mandate beyond 2014 election

Daily Caller ^ | 1:54 PM 11/27/2013 | Giuseppe Macri

[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.

[Travis McGee]

[DaveA37]

Just put a dagger through “odumbocare’s” heart and defund it completely.

[Ancesthntr]

The good news is that neither this, nor any other of the changes that have been made unilaterally by King Barry, will really do the Democrats any good. Why? Because business does not plan 1 or 2 days in advance, nor do insurance companies. Business owners will be letting people go, cutting people back to part-time, and eliminating insurance coverage altogether (as many already have), and insurance companies will be sending out tens of millions of cancellation notices, well before the election next year. The king is doing these unilateral changes to the law to soothe his base. I think that the Democrats are totally screwed next November and there is nothing that all the king’s whores and all the king’s girly-men can do to put Humpty Dumpty together again.

[Red Steel]

Correct. What you have said has crossed my mind numerous times in the last few months. :-)

[Ezekiel]

King Barry changing laws at will sets a dangerous precedent. We've become desensitized to his impeachable offenses. Where's the red line on impeachable offenses? Apparently, there isn't one.

I think this all falls under "overwhelm the system". Or just "overwhelm the senses". Brazen lawlessness has become the new "normal". The red line was crossed before election 2008, so they've had five years to eliminate any boundaries, even to go so far as to say "ignore the voices warning of tyranny."

Daniel 7:25 And he shall speak great words against the most High, and shall wear out the saints of the most High, and think to change times and laws: and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of time.