{"id":187341,"date":"2013-04-01T20:09:00","date_gmt":"2013-04-02T01:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2013\/04\/01\/obamacare-hiccup-is-this-the-shape-of-things-to-come\/"},"modified":"2013-04-01T20:09:00","modified_gmt":"2013-04-02T01:09:00","slug":"obamacare-hiccup-is-this-the-shape-of-things-to-come","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2013\/04\/01\/obamacare-hiccup-is-this-the-shape-of-things-to-come\/","title":{"rendered":"Obamacare Hiccup \u2026\u2026\u2026 Is this the Shape of Things to Come"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The healthcare market for small business medical insurance mandated under the PPACA <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/04\/02\/us\/politics\/option-for-small-business-health-plan-delayed.html\">will be delayed<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Unable to meet tight deadlines in the new health care law, the Obama administration is delaying parts of a program intended to provide affordable health insurance to small businesses and their employees \u2014 a major selling point for the health care legislation. <\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">The law calls for a new insurance marketplace specifically for small businesses, starting next year. But in most states, employers will not be able to get what Congress intended: the option to provide workers with a choice of health plans. They will instead be limited to a single plan. <\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">The choice option, already available to many big businesses, was supposed to become available to small employers in January. But administration officials said they would delay it until 2015 in the 33 states where the federal government will be running insurance markets known as exchanges. And they will delay the requirement for other states as well. <\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">The promise of affordable health insurance for small businesses was portrayed as a major advantage of the new health care law, mentioned often by White House officials and Democratic leaders in Congress as they fought opponents of the legislation. <\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Supporters of the law said they were disappointed by the turn of events. <\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">D. Michael Roach, who owns a women\u2019s clothing store in Portland, Ore., said the delay was \u201ca real mistake.\u201d <\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u201cIt will limit the attractiveness of exchanges to small business,\u201d he said. \u201cWe would like to see different insurance carriers available to each of our 12 employees, who range in age from 21 to 62. You would have more competition, more downward pressure on rates, and employees would be more likely to get exactly what they wanted.\u201d <\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">John C. Arensmeyer, the chief executive of Small Business Majority, an advocacy group, said that the delay of \u201cemployee choice\u201d was \u201ca major letdown for small business owners and their employees.\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Gee, the delay shafts small businesses, and favors the big players in the FIRE (Finance, Insurance, and Real Estate) sector.<\/p>\n<p>Gee, <b>that&#8217;s<\/b> a surprise \u2026\u2026\u2026 <b><span style=\"font-variant: small-caps;\">Not<\/span><\/b>.<\/p>\n<p>The Obama administration doesn&#8217;t work hard for <b>anything<\/b> that does not have a payoff for the banksters and their ilk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The healthcare market for small business medical insurance mandated under the PPACA will be delayed: Unable to meet tight deadlines in the new health care law, the Obama administration is delaying parts of a program intended to provide affordable health insurance to small businesses and their employees \u2014 a major selling point for the health &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1142,1046,1045,979],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-187341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barack-obama","category-healthcare","category-insurance","category-wanker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187341"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187341\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}