Once again, our president has broken the law.
By delaying the employer mandate until 2016, he has committed yet another criminal act. Congress must approve changing an unambiguous statutory mandate.
Of course, he ‘must’ do it as Obamacare is broken and he ‘must’ step in to ‘fix’ it.
Finally, some corporations could get the mandate suspended indefinitely, according to the Wall Street Journal, who also points out that individual mandates have not been delayed at all.
‘ObamaCare” is useful shorthand for the Affordable Care Act not least because the law increasingly means whatever President Obama says it does on any given day. His latest lawless rewrite arrived on Monday as the White House decided to delay the law’s employer mandate for another year and in some cases maybe forever.
ObamaCare requires businesses with 50 or more workers to offer health insurance to their workers or pay a penalty, but last summer the Treasury offered a year-long delay until 2015 despite having no statutory authorization. Like the individual mandate, the employer decree is central to ObamaCare’s claim of universal coverage, but employers said the new labor costs—and the onerous reporting and tax-enforcement rules—would damage job creation and the economy.
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Liberals insisted that such arguments were false if not beneath contempt, but then all of a sudden the White House implicitly endorsed the other side. Now the new delay arrives amid a furious debate about jobs after a damning Congressional Budget Office report last week, only this time with liberals celebrating ObamaCare’s supposed benefits to the job market.
Well, which is it? Either ObamaCare is ushering in a worker’s paradise, in which case by the White House’s own logic exempting businesses from its ministrations is harming employees. Or else the mandate really is leading business to cut back on hiring, hours and shifting workers to part-time as the evidence in the real economy suggests.
Under the new Treasury rule, firms with 50 to 99 full-time workers are free from the mandate until 2016. And firms with 100 or more workers now also only need cover 70% of full-time workers in 2015 and 95% in 2016 and after, not the 100% specified in the law.
The new rule also relaxes the mandate for certain occupations and industries that were at particular risk for disruption, like volunteer firefighters, teachers, adjunct faculty members and seasonal employees. Oh, and the Treasury also notes that, “As these limited transition rules take effect, we will consider whether it is necessary to further extend any of them beyond 2015.” So the law may be suspended indefinitely if the White House feels like it.
By now ObamaCare’s proliferating delays, exemptions and administrative retrofits are too numerous to count, most of them of dubious legality. The text of the Affordable Care Act specifically says when the mandate must take effect—”after December 31, 2013″—and does not give the White House the authority to change the terms.
Changing an unambiguous statutory mandate requires the approval of Congress, but then this President has often decided the law is whatever he says it is. His Administration’s cavalier notions about law enforcement are especially notable here for their bias for corporations over people. The White House has refused to suspend the individual insurance mandate, despite the harm caused to millions who are losing their previous coverage.
This guy needs to go to Iran where he belongs.
Just hang this muslim SOB for treason and be done with kissing his ass.
He is above the law like holder
Why does he get away with this $#%&!@*. Hang him in public..
Obama breaking his own laws go figure
Why are the people in the White House letting Obama get away with all this BS. He is worst than Carter,Clinton, he’s a DISGRACE, DO SOMETING AMERICA, BEFORE ITS TO LATE. GOD HELP US.
he thinks he is the second coming
Look Kyle Bock… Obama AGAIN has delayed parts of Obamacare. Should we go after him for delaying it like you clowns went after the Repubs for also wanting to delay this epic failure that is Ocommiecare? Na… You will jump up like seals… Mindless zombies you liberals are…
Hey Festus relax Obamacare will probably save your life one day!!!
its time for prison folks!!!!