Businesses will not have to comply with the Obamacare employer mandates until 2015. Individuals will still be required to purchase health care insurance or pay a fine. This gives ALL businesses a chance to drop health care for their employees entirely, which will force many individuals out to the Obamacare exchanges.
This decision, NOT to enforce a major provision of Obamacare, was brought to you by Obama himself, without the review or consent of Congress. It further cements the illegal/unconstitutional practice of unilateral executive decisions to NOT enforce existing laws. Obama has done a fair amount of this.
It was determined that forcing the businesses to purchase health insurance policies at the new, exorbitant prices under Obamacare, would be bad for the economy and bad for the Democrats in 2014. So another disaster of Obamacare was kicked down the road. The media increasingly has ceased using the term “Obamacare” to describe the (un)Affordable Health Care Act, as they would like to dissociate this debacle from their messiah-in-chief.
The problem is that individuals who are dropped from health coverage by their employer will have to find their own plans. Insurers, such as Aetna and UHC have been dropping individual policy offerings in various states, so many will be forced to federal insurance exchanges. Many states do NOT have those federal exchanges.
Add to this the fact that 47% of the American workforce, more than ever before, has only PART TIME JOBS!!!! While the government is claiming that employment is up, the proportion of those who are underemployed, is rising fast. Service industry jobs are up, and generally higher paying production jobs are down.
In short, more people will be without health care insurance, (while paying extra fines to the government) than ever before. Obama is hoping that the fallout might hit after 2014 elections.
So the take home final point…… Obama quietly and unilaterally decided not to enforce a major portion of his train wreck health care program, because it is not good for the democrat party in this next election season. The fact that Obamacare is not good for Americans is not an issue for him.
