{"id":18964,"date":"2013-09-24T18:35:37","date_gmt":"2013-09-24T22:35:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=18964"},"modified":"2013-09-24T18:35:37","modified_gmt":"2013-09-24T22:35:37","slug":"obamacare%e2%80%99s-employer-mandate-delay-is-purely-political","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/18964\/obamacare%e2%80%99s-employer-mandate-delay-is-purely-political\/","title":{"rendered":"ObamaCare\u2019s Employer Mandate Delay is Purely Political"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sarah Kliff, a liberal health policy blogger at Wonkblog, explains why the Obama administration <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/wonkblog\/wp\/2013\/09\/24\/heres-why-obama-wont-delay-the-individual-mandate\/\" target=\"_blank\">won\u2019t delay the individual mandate<\/a> like it has other elements of ObamaCare.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2026all the delays so have one thing in common: They erased political headaches for the law while barely denting the number of people that the health overhaul will cover in 2014,\u201d writes Kilff. \u201cThe delays Republicans are asking for now would cause major political and substantive headaches for the law while sharply reducing the number of people it covers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The political headaches Kliff alluded to include vociferous opposition by businesses to the employer mandate. That\u2019s because, once implemented, the employer mandate \u2013 the requirement to provide government-approved health insurance on any firm employing 50 or more full-time workers or pay a fine \u2013 will very likely result in shedding jobs to avoid compliance costs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis predictable employer response is a very good reason to want to postpone the mandate until after the midterm,\u201d wrote Walter Russell Mead said <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.the-american-interest.com\/wrm\/2013\/07\/03\/everything-you-need-to-know-about-the-obamacare-delay\/\" target=\"_blank\">when the employer mandate delay was announced<\/a> this summer. \u201cNobody wants to run as an ally of the job-killing President whose policies led your voters\u2019 employers to dump their health insurance.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s both refreshing and appalling to see an ObamaCare cheerleader like Kliff admit that the only kind of acceptable delays are the ones that politically advantage the Obama administration.<\/p>\n<p>No wonder opponents see the only real solution to ObamaCare\u2019s metastasizing problems as repealing and starting over.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sarah Kliff, a liberal health policy blogger at Wonkblog, explains why the Obama administration won\u2019t delay the individual mandate like it has other elements of ObamaCare. \u201c\u2026all the delays so have one thing in common: They erased political headaches for the law while barely denting the number of people that the health overhaul will cover [&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":[4191,2026,4192,3308,27,1009,35,1447,1001,2594],"class_list":["post-18964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-delay","tag-election","tag-employer","tag-health","tag-jobs","tag-mandate","tag-obamacare","tag-reform","tag-repeal","tag-rule-of-law"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18964","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=18964"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18964\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18968,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18964\/revisions\/18968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}