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Obamacare: Small-business enrolment delayed by one year

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UPDATED: Thursday, November 28, 2013 09:46
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Thursday, November 28, 2013 8:44 AM

GEEZER

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The Obama administration has announced another delay to its healthcare law, this time to online medical insurance for small businesses.

The marketplace website allowing employers to buy health coverage for their workers will be put off by one year until November 2014.

Ongoing problems with Healthcare.gov, beset by glitches since its 1 October launch, were blamed for the delay.

It is the latest setback for the law commonly known as Obamacare.

Enrolment for small businesses was originally meant to start in October, until the administration delayed it by a month. On Wednesday it pushed that deadline back again, by a full year.

Administration officials told reporters in a conference call that employers who want to buy healthcare plans for their workers would need to go through an insurance company or agent, rather than through a government website.

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Julie Bataille

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Officials said this would allow employers to buy coverage while avoiding slowing down technical repairs on the federal website, which has been plagued by errors.

The White House has promised the website will be fixed by the end of November.

Government health spokeswoman Julie Bataille said on Wednesday the portal was now handling 25,000 users at the same time.

She said it was on track to meet its goal of handling double that number by Saturday.

But she cautioned that some malfunctions may persist on the website beyond the end of this week.


http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-25129749

I can only imagine this is going to be a hassle for businesses who did financial and HR planning based on the business exchange being available.

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Thursday, November 28, 2013 9:46 AM

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Gee, if only Sen. Cruz had tried to do something, ANYTHING, to keep this from happening.

Fathom the hypocrisy of a government that requires every citizen to prove they are insured... but not everyone must prove they are a citizen

I'm just a red pill guy in a room full of blue pill addicts.

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