{"id":18338,"date":"2013-07-11T14:39:34","date_gmt":"2013-07-11T18:39:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=18338"},"modified":"2013-07-12T11:09:37","modified_gmt":"2013-07-12T15:09:37","slug":"boehner-delay-the-employer-and-individual-mandates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/18338\/boehner-delay-the-employer-and-individual-mandates\/","title":{"rendered":"Boehner: Delay the Employer and Individual Mandates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) is using a populist line of attack to show how <a href=\"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/index.php\/commentary\/56-health-care\/1893-obamacare-delays-will-increase-welfare-dependency\" target=\"_blank\">delaying ObamaCare\u2019s employer mandate<\/a> will <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2013\/07\/obamacare-individual-mandate-house-vote-94017.html \" target=\"_blank\">harm individuals and families that don\u2019t get an exemption<\/a>, according to Politico.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you\u2019re a software company making billions in profits, you\u2019re exempt from Obamacare next year,\u201d he said. \u201cBut if you\u2019re a 28-year-old struggling to pay off your student loans, you\u2019re not.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you\u2019re a big bank or financial company, you don\u2019t have to comply with Obamcare,\u201d Boehner added. \u201cBut if you\u2019re a single parent trying to make ends meet, there\u2019s no exemption for you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>To level the playing field, Boehner is scheduling back-to-back floor votes in the House next week to delay both the employer and the individual mandate. The move would pose a dilemma for Democrats looking to support President Barack Obama\u2019s policy, but unable to justify exempting businesses but not families and individuals too.<\/p>\n<p>This strikes me as a good strategy. It\u2019s past time for Democrats to own ObamaCare and all its flaws.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) is using a populist line of attack to show how delaying ObamaCare\u2019s employer mandate will harm individuals and families that don\u2019t get an exemption, according to Politico. \u201cIf you\u2019re a software company making billions in profits, you\u2019re exempt from Obamacare next year,\u201d he said. \u201cBut if you\u2019re a 28-year-old struggling [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[143,84,4191,4192,3308,4193,1829,1057,1009,35],"class_list":["post-18338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-barack-obama","tag-congress","tag-delay","tag-employer","tag-health","tag-individual","tag-insurance","tag-john-boehner","tag-mandate","tag-obamacare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18338"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18338\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18342,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18338\/revisions\/18342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}