Posted on 07/08/2013 9:11:27 AM PDT by Kaslin
Many have speculated that the Obama administration isn’t prepared to roll out ObamaCare. Some have speculated that even if the administration were prepared, the rollout would still be chaotic with job losses, rate shock, employer dumping, and the like. But since the Obama administration has been remarkably secretive about the status of its implementation efforts, no one has a better perspective on its preparedness, and the potential for chaos, than the administration itself. That’s why the decision to delay the implementation of ObamaCare’s employer mandate for one year is so illuminating.
Implementing the law without the employer mandate will definitely be very chaotic. (How can the federal government determine eligibility for the law’s subsidies if it doesn’t know whether workers received an offer of adequate coverage from an employer? Will the delay cause even more employers to drop coverage? Will it lead to some workers not receiving subsidies who otherwise would? Will employers’ and workers’ responses to the delay affect the risk profile of those who seek coverage through the exchanges? If so, how will that affect insurers, who have already filed their rates based on the assumption that the employer mandate would be in place? Will this delay lead to more delays, and ultimately to repeal? Will it increase political pressure for repeal of the individual mandate?) The whole purpose of the employer mandate was to reduce the economic and political upheaval that the rest of ObamaCare will unleash.
The decision to delay this mandate suggests that, from the Obama administration’s uniquely informed vantage point, the chaos that will result from its delay will be less than what would result from implementing it when the law requires. The administration doesn’t go around looking for ways to make implementation harder. This decision can only be understood as an effort to take the path of least resistance – and if this is the path of least resistance, then ObamaCare itself must be even more chaotic. This decision is the best window we have to see how nervous the administration is about what lies ahead.
Fixed that Headline...
The end game for Obamacare is access to all your assets.
What “lies” ahead are more lies. Stay healthy, everyone.
If the president can just put on hold parts of the law...why can’t the next president just suspend the entire law?
I really don’t get this. How can one man decide which laws to enforce and not enforce? Or does he know by the time this makes it through the courts the 1 year will be passed and nothing can come of this?
Maybe the next president puts the whole law on hold. Then tells the IRS not to enforce it. Wait for courts decision...then change up his mandate and repeat in the court system.
Or just tell everyone it’s voluntary. And that he’s going to enforce it via voluntary means. No enforcement. Afterall he’s the executive so he can choose how he wants to his people to engage/work. At least that’s what Obama is doing, so we should to.
If you have Drone Power, why bother with Death Panels? /S
It’s like taking the hail out of a tornado and letting the wind go.
The whole thing is a disaster.
My other question is why can't an employee of a company with more than 50 employees suit the company when health insurance is not provided and the company has not paid the fine.
It seems to me that the employee would have standing to suit.
One more thing I haven’t heard anyone mention.
Insurance companies have filed their rates with the states based on the added policies and/or added employees.
How is this going to affect their bottom line?
IMHO, Obamacare is merely a giveaway to insurance companies.
Who else benefits?
Let's see: for profit hospitals, some doctors, big pharma and big medical suppliers, at least until other people's money runs out. Also, do not forget the money for electronic records contained in the American Recovery Act, that helped grease the skids towards passage of the ACA.
Democrats up for re-election next year are the ones nervous about this. They likely got Valerie Jarrett in a meeting and ripped her a few new ones.
Oh, those guys. Of course.
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