House GOP Leadership To Obama: We Have A Few Questions About This ObamaCare Employer Mandate Delay

Questions.

Your decision to delay one part of the law affecting employers and leave in place provisions regulating individual and family health care creates many new questions and concerns. In order to fully understand the implications of your decision, please provide to Congress any analysis conducted by the agencies regarding the impact of the delay in the employer mandate with respect to:

the change in the number of individuals receiving subsidies through the exchange for calendar year 2014,

the change in the number of individuals expected to pay the individual mandate penalty for calendar year 2014,

the change in the number of employers who currently provide health care coverage, changes in federal outlays and revenues,

changes in enrollment in Medicaid for calendar year 2014,

the impact of the employer mandate on increasing the number of individuals working part-time involuntarily and business reducing the number of hours employees work to below 30 hours,

the impact on the ability of the IRS and Health care Exchanges to accurately verify and prevent fraud regarding individual eligibility for premium tax credits and cost sharing subsidies,

the legality of the decision to unilaterally delay the mandate, and the economic impact.

Please also provide to Congress your justification for only delaying the employer mandate at this time and not the new mandate on individuals and families.

We agree with you that the burden was overwhelming for employers, but we also believe American families need the same relief.

Good start.

Of course Obama isn't going to answer this in any meaningful way. So, what's next GOP?

Related: Mark Steyn points out Obama's selective enforcement of laws and unilateral assumption of the power to waive enforcement of certain laws flies in the face of hundreds of years of Anglo-American tradition.

posted by DrewM. at 11:53 AM

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