Hasta La Gadget!

On January 1, 2014 all employers with more than fifty full time (equivalent) employees must provide health insurance for their full time employees or face fines up to $3,000 per employee. It’s called the “employer mandate” and it’s a requirement from the 2010 Affordable Care Act, or Healthcare Reform or Obamacare. Got all that? Yeah, I didn’t think so. Most of the business owners I know (clients and those I speak to around the country) aren’t getting it, or agreeing with it. One recent survey found that “more than 40 percent of small-business owners say that Obamacare has caused them to freeze hiring, while nearly a fifth say that it has caused them to cut existing workers” and a Gallup poll revealed that “half of U.S. small businesses think the health law is bad for them.”

So this week the President responded. He postponed the employer mandate for a year. And now here comes the debate. Was that a good idea? A bad idea? Expensive? Does it prove that Obamacare is a “train wreck” as Rep. Boehner called it? Or is it just a political move. It’s all of that. It’s none of that. It’s a brilliant decision! Because it benefits so many people, businesses and organizations. Like who?

Let’s start with: The President. Hey, he’s responding to all those folks out there. He’s listening to the business community. He’s all about the common folks! He wants a smart government. He’s talking common sense. And oh, just by coincidence he’s trying to win a majority in Congress and what idiot originally came up with the timing of this employer mandate thing anyway? (Pelosi? Curses!) So let’s be smart and really show some common sense…and push this monster to after the election. Brilliant!

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