THE CORRUPT PLOY TO BOOST HEALTH EXCHANGES

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Human Events:

On July 3, the Obama administration quietly revealed that it will not enforce the Affordable Care Act’s employer mandate until 2015, though the law unambiguously requires that it goes into effect Jan. 1, 2014. Administration spokespersons depicted the change as a mere tweaking. That’s untrue. It will affect 10 million workers, double the number of enrollees in the health exchanges and add a net $60 billion to the cost of Obamacare in 2014 alone.

The delay is the administration’s desperate strategy to prop up the health exchanges, which are scheduled to open Oct. 1. The administration fears an under-enrollment crisis. Weeks ago, Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius implored the NBA and NFL to sell young fans on the idea of buying coverage on the exchanges. Young healthy enrollees are needed to offset the costs of the sick and middle-aged and prevent premiums from spiking even higher than they already have.

But the sports leagues said no to shilling for Obamacare. So, as a last resort, the administration postponed the employer mandate — making sacrificial lambs of the 6.9 million uninsured full-time workers whose employers otherwise would have been compelled to start providing them with coverage on Jan. 1 or pay a penalty. (Data from the Employee Benefit Research Institute)