Posted on 01/09/2015 2:35:24 PM PST by ThethoughtsofGreg
On Thursday, the U.S. House passed a bipartisan measure to restore the definition of full-time work to 40 hours instead of 30 under the Affordable Care Act’s employer mandate. Meanwhile, the Supreme Court is gearing up to consider a legal challenge in King v. Burwell that could eliminate the employer mandate in the majority of states.
If passed by the Senate and able to survive a veto threat, Thursday’s measure in the House would directly impact companies across the country subject to the ACA’s employer mandate. The employer mandate, which partially went into effect January 1st for businesses with 100 or more full-time workers, requires employers to provide affordable health insurance to employees or face penalties. Projections released earlier this week from the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office estimate that businesses would escape $54.7 billion in penalties over the next decade were the measure enacted into law:
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I’m not a numbers cruncher but if employers have to provide affordable health and still have to meet the criteria of obamcare minimal requirements it doesn’t seem like much of a win, and what about when someone gets fired, all the different scenarios still leads to disaster.
Besides I don’t think we should be about the business of fixing obamacare, that’s the same as making obamacare a legitimate mandate it should be repealed PERIOD as promised.
Well if you can get Obama to sign the repeal by all means do it
The win is that it helps demonstrate that the Act is unsustainable and gives more reason for repeal.
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