Natural News, as well as a precious few other media outlets, have
warned for years now that the implementation of a provision of
Obamacare that requires employers with more than 50 employees to provide
them with costly new health insurance coverage would ultimately cost
jobs - at a time when unemployment and underemployment remains
historically high.
After the Affordable Care Act was passed in 2010 and the U.S. Supreme Court upheld most of its mandates as constitutional (by essentially having the chief justice rewrite the individual mandate as a tax), President Obama set about unconstitutionally delaying several parts of it - 21 at last count - because it was politically beneficial for his party. One of them was the employer mandate; as "vital" as Obama and Democrats said the law was to the country, delaying any part of it seems counterintuitive, but that's another issue for another day.
Obama first delayed the mandate in 2013; his administration delayed it again earlier this year - firms with fewer than 100 employees now have until 2016 (ironically, the same year as the next presidential election). But larger firms will have to cover at least 70 percent of their employees beginning next year.
After the Affordable Care Act was passed in 2010 and the U.S. Supreme Court upheld most of its mandates as constitutional (by essentially having the chief justice rewrite the individual mandate as a tax), President Obama set about unconstitutionally delaying several parts of it - 21 at last count - because it was politically beneficial for his party. One of them was the employer mandate; as "vital" as Obama and Democrats said the law was to the country, delaying any part of it seems counterintuitive, but that's another issue for another day.
Obama first delayed the mandate in 2013; his administration delayed it again earlier this year - firms with fewer than 100 employees now have until 2016 (ironically, the same year as the next presidential election). But larger firms will have to cover at least 70 percent of their employees beginning next year.
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