Political Expediency

The other day, the administration announced they were postponing a requirement under the Affordable Care Act (ACA, aka "Obamacare"), specifically, the requirement that businesses with more than 50 employees provide health insurance to their workers or pay a penalty. They are delaying enforcement for one year. The year that just happens to be an election year.

Why are they doing this, you ask? The reason given by the administration is that it comes in response to complaints by many businesses that the requirements were too complicated and difficult to implement on time.

It has nothing to do with businesses cutting back on the number of employees hired in order to keep the total employees number under 50. It has nothing to do with businesses cutting the hours of employees so that they are deemed "part-time" under the act and not subject to this requirement. Really, pay no attention to these scurrilous accusations from those rascally Republicans.

You and I know the Obama administration operates out of the purest motives and would never make political expediency more important than the welfare of the people.

On the other hand, everything else is on schedule. Individuals will still have to have health insurance or be fined (or is it "taxed"?) by the IRS. I suspect this, too will be be delayed if political expediency demands it.

We shall see, I suppose.