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  • ‘Computer glitch’ may push Obamacare tobacco-use penalties back until after 2014

    07/09/2013 8:29:20 AM PDT · by rktman · 12 replies
    The Daily Caller ^ | 7/9/2013 | ASSociated Press
    WASHINGTON (AP) — Some smokers trying to get coverage next year under President Barack Obama’s health care law may get a break from tobacco-use penalties that could have made their premiums unaffordable. The Obama administration — in yet another health care overhaul delay — has quietly notified insurers that a computer system glitch will limit penalties that the law says the companies may charge smokers. A fix will take at least a year to put in place.