Posted on 04/03/2014 3:08:21 PM PDT by Red in Blue PA
Former White House press secretary Robert Gibbs predicted Wednesday that the employer mandate will be “one of the first things to go,” during lengthy remarks on Obamacare.
“I don’t think the employer mandate will go into effect. It’s a small part of the law. I think it will be one of the first things to go,” Gibbs said Wednesday during a speech at the 2014 Benefits Selling Expo in Colorado Springs, according to trade publication BenefitsPro.
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If there is no employer mandate, does that not allow employers to offer insurance that does not meet the policy standards defined by dumBO?
If policies do not meet standards, can there not be an individual mandate, er tax, for a policy that makes up the difference between what the employer provides and what zerO says a person must have?
they won’t need it once the insurance companies go out of business in 18 months.
LOL, it’s hardly “small” - it’s the basis of the entire blackmail system!
And with no severability clause...
I’d bet he’s getting ready to run for office so he has to be somewhat critical of obamacare.
Repeal every stinking word, every comma, every period.
End it don’t mend it.
after it is ended, it will be replaced but parts will be included in the new laws
Good idea, that just might work.
I am glad someone finally came up with a solution, because I couldn’t think of one and everyone kept attacking me thinking I was happy about the situation.
It will break this country financially. Dead, dead, dead broke with no way on earth to recover as a free nation.
It will be either kill the damn law or we are finished.
Well, the whole idea behind medical insurance is to get lots of healthy people to sign up and pay a little bit every month, and when someone needs medical care, there’s plenty of money in the pot to pay for it.
If there are few claims, the premiums can stay low. The insurer can only keep so much as profit, as the premium is based on claims.
Even if they were to keep 20%, half of that immediately goes out as taxes, then they have to pay rent, bills and payroll. They usually wind up with about 3.5 to 4%.
In the case of a guaranteed issue state (covers all with pre-existing conditions) around 1% of the sickly-insured, make up about 50% of the claims.
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