Friday, July 5, 2013

Obamacare: How is another year going to fix the employer mandate?

The Treasury Department is basically claiming that the reporting system they originally created to try to make the poorly designed mandate work is incredibly burdensome.
This does beg the question: If you haven’t figured out how to make it work yet, how will another year will help?
It is not like the implementation process was rushed. It was one of the longest ones for a piece of legislation ever. The administration had four years to work out the kinks but still haven’t.
The employer mandate is different. It is a core part of the basic structure of the law. It was meant to expand coverage by getting more people covered at work and to prevent a possible death spiral on the new exchanges with companies dumping the sickest employees. It is necessary to make the system work as advertised. The administration should have been heavily focused on getting it ready. It should have been a top priority.
http://www.correntewire.com/obamacare_clusterfuck_how_is_another_year_going_to_fix_the_employer_mandate 

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