For those who may be wondering about the question:
Why not give individuals the same delay as businesses in signing up for Obamacare ?
Washington Post
Stephen Stromberg
10/7/13
Quote:
On Monday night, John Stewart interviewed Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius,
and he kept pressing her on why the Obama administration put a one-year hold
on the health-care law’s mandate that employers provide insurance to their workers
without offering a similar delay to the requirement that individual Americans have health coverage.
“I would feel like you are favoring big business because they lobbied you,”
Stewart also said, “but you’re not allowing individuals that same courtesy.”
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Here is a very readable 1-page article that includes a link to that interview,
and explains differences between businesses and individuals under the ACA...
Quote:
The corporate mandate is mainly in place to prevent companies
that already offer insurance from taking away that coverage.
Many health-care economists aren’t too worried about this.
That is, firstly, because employers have reasons to continue compensating
their workers with health-care coverage rather than, say, higher wages.
Firms, for example, get a [35%] tax break for offering insurance.
And, secondly, because even if they did take away coverage,
their workers would still be able to go into the marketplaces
the law set up and buy insurance on good terms and with government help.
Other than history, there’s no great reason employers are part
of the health-care system at all, and the law doesn’t need to keep them in it.<snip>
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