Chicago, Illinois (PRWEB) July 03, 2013
Late Tuesday afternoon, the Obama administration announced it was delaying till 2015 the mandate that employers give insurance coverage beneath Obamacare. Beneath the mandate, employers with a lot more than 50 workers would be fined as significantly as $ three,000 per employee if they didnt provide cost-effective insurance starting in 2014.

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If President Obama actually plans to delay the employer mandate, in a tactical attempt to prevent the implementation of his signature domestic policy until after the midterms, it is absolutely nothing more than a craven admission that he knows how unworkable his health policy overhaul is he just doesnt want to endure the political consequences for it whilst in workplace.

Congress passed the employer mandate into law, and the executive branch is now refusing to enforce it. This is nothing far more than rule by regulators attempting to slow the train wreck till theyre out of energy and dont have to answer for their bureaucratic mismanagement.

Benjamin Domenech
Research Fellow, The Heartland Institute
Managing Editor, Overall health Care News
bdomenech(at)heartland(dot)org
703/509-1741

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In the midst of a multi-million-dollar marketing campaign touting the supposed benefits of this law, it is intriguing that the administration desires to delay it. It was rammed via Congress as if it had been an emergency. Three years later, the emergency is its destructive influence on business and employment. Delay will not fix its impossible complexity or the uncertainty companies face about the cost of hiring much more workers. The administration is violating the clear provisions of the law that state it shall go into impact in the months following December 2013. What the White House should do is get out of the way and let Congress implement the will of the American individuals to repeal the monster.

Jane M. Orient, M.D.
Executive Director
Association of American Physicians and Surgeons
janeorientmd(at)gmail(dot)com
520/323-3110

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With the delay of the Obamacare employer mandate, the Obama administration itself is admitting that Obamacare is unworkable despite years of preparing for implementation. But where is the legal authority for the delay? President Obama does not have the authority to rewrite the legislation on his personal. His only selection is to implement the proposal as written, or scrap it if he even has the authority to scrap it. (The presidents oath, and duty below the Constitution is to take care that the law is faithfully executed.) If they dont implement Obamacare in 2014 as supplied in law, how and where do they have the authority to implement it in 2015? The legislation says 2014.

Peter Ferrara
Senior Fellow for Entitlement and Budget Policy
The Heartland Institute
pferrara(at)heartland(dot)org
703/582-8466
Mr. Ferrara is the author of The Obamacare Disaster (2009)

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The Obama administrations announcement that it will delay until 2015 Obamacares employer mandate to offer inexpensive insurance or be fined as a lot as $ 3,000 per employee wins a political Triple Crown: politically cynical, Machiavellianly brilliant, and constitutionally suspect.

It is cynical, first, because it implicitly acknowledges that Nancy Pelosi was lying when she mentioned not too long ago that the implementation of this is fabulous and that Democratic Sen. Max Baucus was right in calling it a train wreck. But this news comes on the eve of the Independence Day holiday when most observers will pay it small interest.

It is brilliant since it postpones the pain and the cost of the impending train wreck until after the 2014 midterm elections, for which the administration and its allies have transparently gone all-in to make certain a Democratic takeover of the Home of Representatives.

And it is suspect due to the fact after once again the former lecturer in constitutional law who presently occupies the White Home refuses to execute what the legislature has passed, however suspect each the ends and the signifies of enacting that legislation.

In brief, its a really sad way to celebrate Independence Day.

David L. Applegate
Policy Advisor, Legal Affairs
The Heartland Institute
media(at)heartland(dot)org
312/377-4000

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The political implications of this choice are evident: Obama and his advisors foresee the Democrats obtaining killed in next years elections. They are taking this extraordinary step in hopes of limiting the disaster, but my guess is that couple of folks will be fooled by such an apparent political maneuver.

S.T. Karnick
Director of Study
The Heartland Institute
skarnick(at)heartland(dot)org
312/377-4000

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The announcement that the employer mandate will be delayed till 2015 is just the most recent instance of the failure of Congress and the Obama administration to comprehend what they were passing and what implementation would entail. This comes on the heels of numerous other setbacks for the Inexpensive Care Act, like the cancelling of the long-term care plan, the striking down of mandated state Medicaid expansion, the delay in totally opening the little-company exchanges, the doubling or tripling of premiums for numerous young and healthier persons, a developing realization the tax on healthcare devices is a job- and innovation-killer, and revelations that many moderate-income Americans who have been expecting subsidies wont get any subsidies to purchase coverage.

The administration had three years to write the regulations required to enforce this mandate and nevertheless could not get it done. This does not bode properly for the opening of the exchanges in October, now significantly less than 90 days away and still facing significant implementation challenges according to the Government Accountability Workplace.

Whilst the mandate was in no way most likely to decrease the number of uninsured Americans, this lengthy string of failures strongly suggests that far more issues and shortcomings stay lurking in the specifics of a bill we had been told needed to be passed so we could locate out what is in it.

Sean Parnell
Policy Advisor
The Heartland Institute
sean(at)impactpolicymanagement(dot)com
312/377-4000

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The choice by the administration to delay implementation of the misnamed Cost-effective Care Act coincides with the reality that the well being care overhaul is a slow motion train wreck that will eat up the economy and produce another leftist administrative-state slush fund in which to park political operatives in between elections.

Delaying the consequences of the ACA is a bow to what is left of government strategies to deceive the electorate, a move to cut the short-term losses and negative public reactions to loss of coverage and sticker shock. The administration is hoping to win the midterms just before bringing the hammer down and the delay is a likelihood to sque