Everything You Want to Know About the Obamacare Delay but Were Afraid to Ask

Elspeth Reeve July 3, 2013

Obamacare was designed to take effect in little pieces — people under 26 could stay on their parents’ insurance immediately, for example, but the expansion of Medicaid takes effect next year. One of those pieces was delayed on Tuesday — the employer mandate, which is different from the individual mandate that brought about a Supreme Court case last year. The Treasury Department delayed the mandate that all employers with more than 50 employees give those workers health insurance or pay a fine. They have till 2015, instead of 2014. Republicans say the delay only shows the law is doomed to failure.  House Speaker John Boehner said, “This is a clear acknowledgment that the law is unworkable, and it
underscores the need to repeal the law and replace it with effective, patient-centered reforms.” House Oversight Committee chair Darrell Issa said the delay “is another in a string of extra legal actions taken by his Administration to mask the horrible impact his law will have on the economy and health care in the United States.”

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