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Obamacare Online Sign-Up Delayed By One Year For Small-Business
In a move reminiscent of the "radical" Tea-Party demands of a few weeks back, the administration has decided:
- *OBAMA DELAYING ONLINE INSURANCE ENROLLMENT FOR SMALL BUSINESS
- *SMALL BUSINESSES SAID TO USE `DIRECT ENROLLMENT,' NOT WEBSITE
The one-year delay - to Nov 2014, follows the initial Oct 2013 delay citing "sometime in November 2013" availability. The delay applies only to the federal-run SHOP exchanges in almost three dozen states.
Via HHS,
“We’ve concluded that we can best serve small employers by continuing this offline process while we concentrate on both creating a smoothly functioning online experience in the SHOP Marketplace, and adding key new features, including an employee choice option and premium aggregation services, by November 2014,”
Via Bloomberg,
Small businesses won’t be able to use the federal government’s health-insurance website until November 2014 in most U.S. states, the latest delay for the Obama administration’s health-care system overhaul.
“Direct enrollment” will be available in the meantime, said an official with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services who asked not to be identified because the decision hasn’t been made public. The change applies to 36 states where the federal government is running insurance exchanges.
The exchanges for small businesses, available for companies with 50 or fewer full-time workers, had already been delayed from a scheduled Oct. 1, 2013, start.
So far so good eh?
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Not by any coincidence is that date is just after next years midterm elections. These guys are diabolical scumbags.
Just kill the fucking POS already!
Not until after the Democrats are voted back in. We must have our political priorites.
Nope, the Dems are cooked either way. No business is going to hire much until the uncertainty around the effects of Obamacare are resolved. Delaying implementation just drags the uncertainty out longer.
kicking the can will not work here, the horror in nancy pelosi's sour puss
Lawlessness.
Will never be delayed for small people (sheeple).
Businesses get the reprive....all the others get a jar of Vaseline.
If you like your healthcare plan, you can keep your healthcare plan!!
Untill my method of F***ing you out of it starts working.
Damn sheeple
The stamped layoffs and cancelled policies circa September 2013 will not be reversed. Obama knows this, and the backlash if it does not come in the Feb. seasonally adjusted numbers should show it's ugly face around May when the new-debt ceiling + taper is in full /drama mode.
That brings up the bigger picture. Another shot at bringing us down thru stagnatant gdp and attack on USD. Leading to rampant rates.
We have been assured multiple times by liberal economists that uncertainty doesn't matter. Feel better now?
"Just kill the fucking POS already!" So if I upvote this how long will I be staying in a CIA dentention camp?
Until you learn to right-think.
It's not a detention camp.
It's a beet farm and you'll be a beet fermer.
Welcome to the Gulag 2.0.
Forward, comrades.
The beatings will continue until morale improves.
Completely coincidental. </sarc>
Now back to coverage of which turkey got pardoned.
The guy in whitehouse is biggest turkey the country has ever seen. Suprised he hasn't scheduled a news conference to gobble in front of the teleprompter about how "the people" want his plan.
Just another example of "That Which is Seen, and That Which is Not Seen." They show one turkey pardoned, and do not show the turkeys getting slaughtered (to feed the one doing the pardoning and his family and "friends"). That such a show is even put on and not ridiculed by one and all for what it is is symbolic of the ease with which the general public's perception is manipulated.
And the economics of "pardoning" a turkey are nonsensical. I wonder how Americans would vote if you lined up a few hungry families and let Americans choose between pardoning the turkey and feeding the turkey to the families. (And then there's the resources that were spent getting the turkey to that point, the resources that will continue to be spent if it's pardoned, and the resources spent putting on the whole charade.)
If I were the president and the press expressed interest in my "turkey relations", I would invite them to watch/film me personally chop the bird's head off. Maybe add a bit of humor by giving the bird a blind-fold and a cigarette and reading off the charges the turkey is guilty of like "being too yummy". And for this (and any other frivolous press activity) charge members of the press an entrance fee (kickstarter style so the event is cancelled if there's insufficient interest) with part of that used to cover any associated expenses that would otherwise be placed on the tax-payer and the remainder given to charity.
(Or I'd just tell them to fuck off. One of the two. It would depend on how motivated I felt that day to shock people's nonsensical "sensibilities".)
Now on to my analysis of the economics of posting to ZH...
I changed my mind. I can't call them diabolical because that implies some level of intellect whereby their victims don't know they've been fucked until it's too late. These guys are just in your fact pathetic scumbags.
You had it right the first time.
Lets propose the Congressional Reform Act of 2013
1. No Tenure / No Pension.
A Congressman/woman collects a salary while in office and
receives no pay when they're out of office.
2. Congress (past, present & future) participates in Social
Security.
All funds in the Congressional retirement fund move to the
Social Security system immediately. All future funds flow into the Social
Security system, and Congress participates with the American people. It may
not be used for any other purpose.
3. Congress can purchase their own retirement plan, just as
all Americans do.
4. Congress will no longer vote themselves a pay raise.
Congressional pay will rise by the lower of CPI or 3%.
5. Congress loses their current health care system and
participates in the same health care system as the American people.
6. Congress must equally abide by all laws they impose on
the American people.
7. All contracts with past and present Congressmen/women are
void effective 12/1/13. The American people did not make this contract with
Congressmen/women.
Congress made all these contracts for themselves. Serving in
Congress is an honor, not a career. The Founding Fathers envisioned citizen
legislators, so ours should serve their term(s), then go home and back to
work.
THIS IS HOW YOU FIX CONGRESS!
No consecutive terms for Congress or president. One term, not eligible to run until someone else has a stay. Come back next time.
Also - no pay or pension whatsoever. Just citizen volunteers who have already made their nut in the private economy. Would eliminate the rif-raff overnight.
..., not eligible to run until EVERYONE else has a stay.
Sorry. We don't need no congressional "Acts." We have a Fuhrer.
"Lets propose the Congressional Reform Act of 2013"
Big honors Candyman.
We have seen two lists of possible solutions today in the fine commentary here on ZH.
Perhaps, if we get a story with the main jist of it listing solutions to our present menagerie of corruptions and criminality run amok, we will see a gathering of all the great minds here in the comment section adding everyone's list like this.
And, a mighty big thanks in advance for all those who contribute, and for all of you great hearts that have already added your light. We just need to collate all this great input into one easily referenced/linkable place to pass around the net like a wildfire.
After that, it is to be mandated to all of the politickers: ADOPT AND IMPLEMENT ALL THESE SOLUTIONS NOW, OR GET OUT OF OFFICE. For those who do not tow the line, begin the IMMEDIATE countrywide RECALL elections BEFORE CHRISTMAS! There can be no rest for the wicked.
Big grace and many blessings on the truth-warriors here.
Thank you ALL!
You might want to add a clause that makes it illegal for any congressperson to be employed by any industry he has legiferated about.
Amendment, no one in congress gets paid if you do not pass a balanced budget.
Warren Buffet, in a recent interview with CNBC, offers one
of the best quotes about the debt ceiling:
"I could end the deficit in 5 minutes," he told CNBC. "You
just pass a law that says that anytime there is a deficit of more than 3% of
GDP, all sitting members of Congress are ineligible for re-election.
The deep irony is Warren's own father was thrown out due to debt impasse in the great depression when he was recalled. That culture shock of going from K-street kid to dirt poor Nebraska is how he became so driven.
So good idea.
"just pass a law" to reign in Congress. Easy as that! What are we waiting for?
Interestingly enough, there is the No Budget, No Pay Act of 2013. But the word "Balanced" isn't in there anywhere. And "No Pay" is a lie, as they would still have been paid (just not until the end of the congressional term).
While you're at it, let it apply to every federal gubermint employee as well. No pension except 401k, Obamacare exchanges for them, no union representation, fire at will.
Let those who think they're our overlords feel the sting...
Sorry, but I disagree. We do not need MORE laws, we just need to operate like it was intended.
1) Sound Money. End the .fed (unconstitutional?)
2) Repeal the 17th Amendment. (states rights)
Do these two and see what happens.....bet there would be changes. Immediately.
One more suggestion, repeal the 16th Amendment - End the Income Tax
Can't even keep up with the bullshit coming out of Obama regime anymore. Am I in or out? Mandated or not? I'm just going to assume I'm fucked. Fuck You Obama
What else is left to humiliate citizens of this country after 1800fuckyu. they need to have their pants down , bend them over and spank their ass with leather slippers.
The effects of the delay will be seen months before the electons - cancellations, rate hikes, deductibles through the roof - no, the Dems are dead meat. They just signed their Death Warrant.
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LIKE any of this matters?.
People have SEEN and FELT the costs associated with this ACA Crap, they can delay it for 5yrs, end result is still NO ONE CAN AFFORD the PREMS/DEUCTIBLES/or the left over costs not covered by EITHER.Epic FAIL.Any way you slice it, the DEMS are DEAD meat in 2014 already, the damage has been done, the pricing/coverage monster has BEEN let out of the bag.
Pandoras Box once opened cannot be shut.,this is akin to you're GOING to be executed,100% certainty, you want it now?, or do you want to THINK about it for the next 12 mos?.
Nothing in the constitution gives Obama the authority to change legislation at will!
The fact is he has just rendered the entire ACA null and void by doing so!
Of course no delay for the serfs of the U.S.S.A. - the citizens.
First he gave a pass to McD's and big corporations, then all corporations, then finally relented and let small business off the hook.
But not you - not me - not the slaves of the kleptoligarchy!
Go pick your cotton.
Hmmmm... I believe I will delay my IRS payments until November 2014.
You need to keep up. The new final registration date is 12/23/14.
So they need a year to build the hi speed train to the incenarators correct?
Yes we can
Yes We can
Yes we can
fucking crap.
So who is left in the mandatory government health care program anyway? Is it just Average American Joe that has not been excused from it?
The average American Joes that own no lobbyists.
Ted Cruz was such a cook
A real Chef that one.
He cooked up some controversy, along with that wacky guy who yelled out "You lie!"
Both of them kooks, totally off base, not understanding how much Obama and CONgress and the Supine Court CARE about us Serfs toiling away in non-productive pursuits to enrich the corporatocracy.
Yup, total kooks, because Washington and Wall Street CARE about Main Street SO MUCH.
I think Ted Cruz got on the terrorist list for proposing this 60 days ago
Look at the bright side - it gives all those small business owners another year to switch out their full timers for part-timers.
Obummercare - the gift that keeps on giving.
congress voted on this change?
edict - no vote necessary; the kings says
Yep KING Obama decides what is law and how he enforces them. Instead of honoring his Constitutional oath.
When do impeachment proceedings begin?
I am going to sign up on paper, not online. And I am contemplating using security paper (google it).
I will photograph it, send it in Receipt Return Requested, and then I have my proof of service and they can cram the whole fucking mess up their collecting ass.
obamadisaster - destroying our economy, our healthcare and lives
No privacy!
Anyone stupid enough to sign up for this commi-scam-care, deserves all it will do to them for the rest of their life.:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AR7mngELoWI
Boy old boy did Obama just prove that it was he and he alone who caused the Gov. Shutdown last month. The Rep's offered this and Barracky refused to even consider it. Anyone who still supports Barracky is a cracker hating racist and nothing more.
Boy old boy did Obama just prove that it was he and he alone who caused the Gov. Shutdown last month. The Rep's offered this and Barracky refused to even consider it. Anyone who still supports Barracky is a cracker hating racist and nothing more.
hannibal smith - i love it when a plan comes together
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7GL6LH6ufhM
Working from home today so for laughs I flipped on MSNBC to see how they'd spin this news. Apparently to ruin my afternoon, MSNBC has chosen to ignore that this happened yet. Must be waiting to run it as breaking news at 11pm and then they will bury it faster than Johnson buried Kennedy those many years ago.
Now to get amnesty for all the illegal aliens, thus securing Democrat victories in every election from now on.
the D party announces a one year extension of their denial of service attack on the healthcare sector
I'll do Obama 1 better....When my private policy rates double AGAIN next year I will cancel all insurance and supend my enrollment...INDEFINITELY!
Fuck you Obama!
Yep, civil disobedience is your only course of action now.
More mid-term election damage mitigation.
But of course, the damage is done and there is really nothing Dems can do to change the trend... but they'll never know it or admit it.
MUST. STAY. IN. OFFICE.
MUST. MAINTAIN. STATUS. QUO.
What a major CF - How's anybody supposed to figure out what to do or trust that it won't change?
(Yes, I know, that's what they're trying to do.)
Put our family in the "got screwed" category for those that are keeping track.
Further proof that hussein doesnt care about the constitution. Exhibit A was the NDAA.
And my state was dumb enough to set up its own exchange, so it doesn't apply here. Hey, maybe somebody can sue over this, cause we aren't all getting equal treatment. Not that suing will get the law nixed or anything, but I do support anything that draws attention to how much of a three ring circus this is.
Until it's appealed all the way up to the Supreme (HAHAHAHAHA) court.
This is just terrible... for repubican politics.
this is just a "symptom" to the wind down of the Federal Government itself. the FOMC is basically turning the place into an "ETF"...as "the meat axe" gets taken to one Federal Program after another. all the transfer payments will remain in place to the maximum extent possible...but basically you've got "the end." the ACA is an across the board tax increase to go along with the huge payroll tax increase this Spring. both treasury and equity markets appear to be signaling a mild inflation next year...but one look at Detroit says to me that isn't the problem here.
They keep changing the rules and moving the goalposts in the middle of the game.
Stuck on stupid ... energy wise ... kool-aid anyone ( / everyone)?
William J. Perry on Energy, National Security and Technology
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2qXvFrS22Cg (1:18:30)
Well you have basically a "static" law here working with the ever changing world of complex IT infrastructures and thanks to health insurance exchanges all are learning a real lesson on the realities of IT Infrastructures and their attachments to laws and bills...need to spell this out better or perhaps begin entertaining digital centric laws. Segmentation not working so well for insurers as well as government not building a website properly either.
http://ducknetweb.blogspot.com/2013/11/insurance-business-still-clashing...
Maybe time for a regrouping on the ACA? Now that the website can't quote, insurers need to call out their quants...new models needed...
http://ducknetweb.blogspot.com/2013/11/accountable-care-actneeds-to-take...
Not an original thought of mine, but an ancedote I've always liked: "For every law they pass, they have to repeal three allready in existance".
Conservative action groups are sueing the IRS for their being targeted by IRS. (heard on Fox News Radio last night) Then we get this today.
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/obama-administration-proposes-curbs-campaigning-011800435.html
SOSO - SOP Just more flame for the fire.
And which party used that famous phrase, "...no controlling authority"? What was that, a warning or a prediction?
Don't they need to amend the law for these changes?
No, he does not need to amend the law. Every one of these delays are not changes in the law, the law remains, it is just that the king's men have been instructed to not penalize you for violating the law.
I will not obey.