Small business owners may face $100/day penalty over exchange notifications
The 'penalties' are back...as opposed to the 'taxes' that they were upheld as. Thanks, Chief Justice.FoxBusiness: Small business owners who thought they were off the hook for ObamaCare regulations until 2015 may be in for an expensive wake-up call next month.
Beginning Oct. 1, any business with at least one employee and $500,000 in annual revenue must notify all employees by letter about the Affordable Care Act’s health-care exchanges, or face up to a $100-per-day fine. The requirement applies to any business regulated under the Fair Labor Standards Act, regardless of size. Going forward, letters are to be distributed to any new hires within 14 days of their starting date, according to the Department of Labor.
Earlier this summer, the employer mandate, which states that every business with at least 50 or more full-time employees must offer workers acceptable coverage or face a $2,000 penalty per-worker, per-year, was pushed back until 2015. But the Oct. 1 employee-notification deadline stands.
Big insurers ditch Obamacare exchanges
And that lays out the blueprints for higher premiums, intended failure, then on to a single-payer nightmare. But should we expect anything more from a government takeover that's added 10,516 pages of final regulations to the Federal Register, governing how Obamacare will be implemented? Btw, that's more than eight times the number of pages in the Gutenberg Bible!CNN: When Americans start shopping on the state-based exchanges next month, a couple of big insurers will likely be MIA.
Several of the larger players, including Aetna, UnitedHealthcare and Cigna, are treading cautiously into Obamacare, waiting to see how the start of the massive health care reform pans out in 2014.
Among the concerns is the fear that unhealthy Americans who previously could not obtain coverage will flood the exchanges and run up large health care bills.
Related link: 10 Ways Obamacare Isn’t Working
Today, the genuine leaders in the Senate sought to reignite the effort to defund this monstrocity, despite the Syrian distraction...
Cruz released a statement lambasting those among his own party who'd rather further the congressional deception than genuinely fight!Politico: Congress’s curtain came down for summer break with Obamacare defunding center stage. But as the curtain goes back up as lawmakers return, it’s Syria — not defunding — in the spotlight.
At noon Tuesday, some of Obamacare’s most ardent foes — Sens. Rand Paul of Kentucky, Ted Cruz of Texas and Mike Lee of Utah among them — will hold a Tea Party Patriots-sponsored rally outside the Capitol to try to reignite the defunding enthusiasm. Time is short: Obamacare enrollment starts Oct. 1.
Meanwhile, House leaders are eyeing a plan to vote on a continuing resolution to fund the government into the new fiscal year that includes a defunding provision — but with a procedural approach that would basically let the Senate split off the defunding to avoid a government shutdown.
"Last night, news reports surfaced that the House of Representatives might vote to 'defund Obamacare' in a way that easily allows Senate Democrats to keep funding Obamacare. If House Republicans go along with this strategy, they will be complicit in the disaster that is Obamacare.Here's more on that losing strategy from the mouth of the biggest disaster in the Republican Party (on equal footing with John McRINO of course), John 'Bob Michel' Boehner (what's up with the John's?)...
"The American people are not surprised that politicians in Washington--of both parties--are afraid to take a stand. But another symbolic vote against Obamacare is meaningless. Obamacare is the biggest job killer in America, and people are hurting.
"House Republicans should pass a continuing resolution that funds government in its entirely--except Obamacare--and that explicitly prohibits spending any federal money, mandatory or discretionary, on Obamacare. They should not use any procedural chicanery to enable Harry Reid to circumvent that vote.
"If you oppose Obamacare, don't fund Obamacare. Our elected leaders should listen to the American people."
CNSNews: "Listen, our goal here is not to shut down the government," Boehner told reporters on Tuesday. "Our goal is to cut spending and to stop Obamacare. And I believe that the strategy that was outlined to members this morning accomplishes that."
Press reports say the Republican strategy calls for the House to pass a continuing resolution that funds Obamacare, as well as a separate measure that would amend the CR to defund Obamacare. The Democrat-led Senate, however, would never pass the second resolution. Yet House Republicans could claim they did pass a measure to defund Obamacare.
Boehner noted that the House has voted 40 times to defund or repeal Obamacare. The current strategy, he said, "is intended not to really satisfy the House -- we've already voted. It's to force the vote and force the fight in the United States Senate. That's where the issue is -- the United States senate. Let's get the issue over there and force them to actually have a vote on getting rid of Obamacare."
What a feckless wonder...along with his his second in command, Cantor.
Related link: House leadership pushes new legislative strategy to defund ObamaCare
Brent Bozell was right on the money last night...
Related links: WATCH: Full Breitbart News coverage at Exempt America rally"When the Democrats passed Obamacare, every single Republican in the House and the Senate voted against it. Every single Republican in the House and Senate vowed to do something about it. ...the problem is, they have done nothing about it. Here comes the one opportunity where you can say, 'Fund the whole government, including the things we don't like. Fund it all. Not Obamacare, which nobody wants, and it's extraordinary how they won't work."
"What's gonna happen...they're gonna vote a lot of these people out. ...People are fed up with this."
GOP Doc: Vote to defund Obamacare, let Senate erase it
