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'ObamaCare" is useful shorthand for the
Affordable Care Act not least because the law increasingly means
whatever President
Obama
says it does on any given day. His latest lawless rewrite arrived
on Monday as the White House decided to delay the law's employer
mandate for another year and in some cases maybe forever.
ObamaCare
requires businesses with 50 or more workers to offer health insurance
to their workers or pay a penalty, but last summer the Treasury offered a
year-long delay until 2015 despite having no statutory authorization.
Like the individual mandate, the employer decree is central to
ObamaCare's claim of universal coverage, but employers said the new
labor costs—and the onerous reporting and tax-enforcement rules—would
damage job creation and the economy.
Liberals insisted that such arguments were false if not beneath
contempt, but then all of a sudden the White House implicitly endorsed
the other side. Now the new delay arrives amid a furious debate about
jobs after a damning Congressional Budget Office report last week, only
this time with liberals celebrating ObamaCare's supposed benefits to the
job market.
Read the rest at The Wall Street Journal.
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