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By Douglas Holtz-Eakin
07/03/2013
The bombshell that dropped last night is not 4th of July fireworks — it was the White House announcing that it was delaying enforcement of the employer-mandate in Obamacare until 2015. For a public inured to raven political decisions trumping policy, even this was a stunner.
Can the president simply ignore the law? Technically the mandate is not gone, but the administration has great latitude to determine its priorities in enforcing the law. It will simply be much too busy to penalize those violating the mandate, an executive power grab that is familiar from their playbook on education, climate change, and elsewhere.
The policy implications are fairly straightforward. Essentially for calendar 2014 the act of dropping coverage and dumping employees into the exchanges is on sale. Drop and dump, but no penalty. Accelerating the rush of employers to the exits is bad news for taxpayers. At a minimum, the federal revenue from fines is gone. More realistically, the costs of already-bloated insurance subsidies will escalate and the red ink will rise.
[Excerpt]
Read more:
The Political Art of the Delay | National Review Online
Of course Americans are still waiting to see what's in the first one thousand plus pages. What most informed Americans have found is not palatable to them.
Why should American citizens pay for the health care of Illegal Aliens here in the US?
07/03/2013
The bombshell that dropped last night is not 4th of July fireworks — it was the White House announcing that it was delaying enforcement of the employer-mandate in Obamacare until 2015. For a public inured to raven political decisions trumping policy, even this was a stunner.
Can the president simply ignore the law? Technically the mandate is not gone, but the administration has great latitude to determine its priorities in enforcing the law. It will simply be much too busy to penalize those violating the mandate, an executive power grab that is familiar from their playbook on education, climate change, and elsewhere.
The policy implications are fairly straightforward. Essentially for calendar 2014 the act of dropping coverage and dumping employees into the exchanges is on sale. Drop and dump, but no penalty. Accelerating the rush of employers to the exits is bad news for taxpayers. At a minimum, the federal revenue from fines is gone. More realistically, the costs of already-bloated insurance subsidies will escalate and the red ink will rise.
[Excerpt]
Read more:
The Political Art of the Delay | National Review Online
Of course Americans are still waiting to see what's in the first one thousand plus pages. What most informed Americans have found is not palatable to them.
Why should American citizens pay for the health care of Illegal Aliens here in the US?