Another Obamacare law delay
The law is for little people: The Obama administration announced on Wednesday that it will delay for five months enforcing a part of Obamacare pertaining to small businesses.
It seems that under Obamacare businesses are no longer allowed to offer employees spending accounts which can be used cover a portion of the cost of buying individual health plans. (Another example of not being allowed to keep your plan, even if you like it. Period.) If they continue to offer these accounts they could get fined $100 per day per employee. If they don’t, their employees might find themselves without health insurance.
So, the Obama administration is not going to enforce another Obamacare provision for five more months, even though this law was Obama’s gift to the nation and was so perfect it wasn’t necessary to discuss its passage with anyone outside the Democratic Party. In fact, it was so perfect the Democrats themselves didn’t need to read the law before they voted for it!
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The law is for little people: The Obama administration announced on Wednesday that it will delay for five months enforcing a part of Obamacare pertaining to small businesses.
It seems that under Obamacare businesses are no longer allowed to offer employees spending accounts which can be used cover a portion of the cost of buying individual health plans. (Another example of not being allowed to keep your plan, even if you like it. Period.) If they continue to offer these accounts they could get fined $100 per day per employee. If they don’t, their employees might find themselves without health insurance.
So, the Obama administration is not going to enforce another Obamacare provision for five more months, even though this law was Obama’s gift to the nation and was so perfect it wasn’t necessary to discuss its passage with anyone outside the Democratic Party. In fact, it was so perfect the Democrats themselves didn’t need to read the law before they voted for it!
On Christmas Eve 1968 three Americans became the first humans to visit another world. What they did to celebrate was unexpected and profound, and will be remembered throughout all human history. Genesis: the Story of Apollo 8, Robert Zimmerman's classic history of humanity's first journey to another world, tells that story, and it is now available as both an ebook and an audiobook, both with a foreword by Valerie Anders and a new introduction by Robert Zimmerman.
The ebook is available everywhere for $5.99 (before discount) at amazon, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit. If you buy it from ebookit you don't support the big tech companies and the author gets a bigger cut much sooner.
The audiobook is also available at all these vendors, and is also free with a 30-day trial membership to Audible.
"Not simply about one mission, [Genesis] is also the history of America's quest for the moon... Zimmerman has done a masterful job of tying disparate events together into a solid account of one of America's greatest human triumphs."--San Antonio Express-News
As an Air Force retiree, I am fortunate to live in an area where my TRIcare health insurance is covered by USFamily Health Plan. (incentive not to move to a warmer climate). I suspect this insurance will eventually be deemed to be a “Cadillac” plan.
Most of the people I work with are also military retirees, so we did not have to avail ourselves of the company’s health insurance through AETNA (also a “cadillac” plan).
We were paid an hourly Health and Wellness stipend to make up for not using their plan.
As of 1 January 2014, we were no longer allowed to receive this stipend because of this provision in the ACA.
Therefore Obamacare has cut my yearly take home pay by approximately $7,000 (none of us has had a raise in five years either)
Clarification;
The money was deposited in a 401(a) account if we opted out of their plan. unfortunately for me, I “neglected” to realize that I had to opt out every year (even though my situation didn’t change) and I was involuntarily enrolled in their plan. so now I’m enrolled in TWO cadillac plans. (and no more 401(a).
I’m SO glad that the government is here to help me…