In a stunning
development, the Obama administration announced
on Tuesday it is going to delay the implementation of the employer mandate, a
major aspect of President Obama’s health care law initially set to go into
effect on Jan. 1, by a year.
In a blog post,
the Treasury Department wrote
that it has been in talks with businesses about the implications of the mandate
and has decided to delay implementation to provide them with more time to adapt
to the requirement. The news was first broken by Bloomberg reporters
Mike Dorning and Alex Wayne…… Avik
Roy raises another issue, which is that the law states
that, “The amendments made by this section shall apply to months beginning
after December 31, 2013.” Practically, the question is, even if delaying the
mandate is beyond the power of the executive branch, what groups would sue the
Obama administration to implement it on time? What is the constituency for the
employer mandate? Either way, it is pretty ironic that defenders of the law
have been criticizing
opponents of the legislation for undermining implementation, and yet now Obama
is simply ignoring parts of the law that are inconvenient.……To Read More….
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