The individual mandate, not to mention the employer mandate, was supposed to prevent this.
The employer mandate would boost demand for healthcare goods and services, thereby increasing employment in healthcare-related sectors.
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Indeed, the employer mandate seems to have had such an effect even before it has become effective.
But in 2014, most of the employer mandate and penalty provisions of the PPACA, aka Obamacare, take effect.
Romney made a show of vetoing the employer mandate and a few other sections, and the vetoes were overturned.
Moreover, under the Obamacare law, the employer mandate does not require employers to cover the family dependents of their workers.
Were Liberty to succeed in its lawsuit, a major part of the Affordable Care Act the employer mandate could be cut from the law.
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The new regulatory burdens from Dodd-Frank are scheduled to flow, as are the regulatory burdens of Obamacare, including the employer mandate, which is already massacring jobs.
That repeal slashed trillions in future tax and spending burdens on the economy, and removed regulatory burdens that have already been murderous on jobs, such as the employer mandate.
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Worse, the incentives created by the employer mandate will accelerate the disturbing trend of the past 5 years that has moved us in the direction of a part-time, low-wage workforce.
What has attracted less attention thus far is a different IRS regulation that could make it possible for most employers to completely, or in some cases nearly, avoid the employer mandate altogether.
To avoid the employer mandate, some small firms are considering other strategies, such as increasing employees' share of the premiums, so they don't have to shoulder the entire cost of offering benefits.
To the extent that employers respond to the employer mandate by reducing hiring, or even laying off existing workers, that will cause a loss of income tax and payroll tax revenues, further adding to the deficit.
Similarly, there is a very real risk that the penalty structure to enforce the employer mandate under Obamacare may have very perverse incentives for firms below 30 workers and 50 workers to stay below these thresholds.
Davis specifically rejected the employer mandate along conventional constitutional grounds, finding that even employers who operate within a single state can be subjected to federal regulations, much as civil-rights laws apply even to local diners and motels.
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The employer mandate is crippling job recovery.
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To determine the size of their firm, and whether it would be subject to the employer mandate, business owners have the choice to calculate their head counts by averaging the full 12 months of 2013 or a consecutive six-month period during the year.
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While some employers will drop coverage because they have a very low-income workforce that can get insurance more cheaply through the new exchanges, other employers will start offering to avoid paying the penalties associated with the employer mandate or because of the subsidies offered to small employers.
The two issues, which could lead to yet another SCOTUS review sometime during the 2013-2014 court session, involve a challenge to the employer mandate requiring that employers with 50 or more full-time employees provide health insurance to its workers or pay a fine and the contraception mandate requiring that health care benefits include a contraceptive benefit without the need for a co-pay.
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It includes the Obamacare employer mandate requiring employers to purchase the most expensive health insurance for their employees, which is another tax on jobs.
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Still more regulatory excess is slated to come from Obamacare, including the costly employer mandate, which will require employers of 50 or more workers to buy the most expensive, politically correct health insurance for their employees.
Adding further evidence for the power of the employer side of the labor market to adjust in the face of an individual as well as an employer mandate, the number of employers offering health insurance actually increased following reform.
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Indeed, the law includes an employer mandate that forces employers to cover health insurance for their workers or pay a steep fine.
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And it begins with the tax-and-mandate scheme that undermines the employer-provided health care system that has made it possible for small businesses like the one I used to run to provide health benefits for millions of our employees.
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Step one in the plan to reduce such regulatory burdens is to repeal Obamacare, with its employer mandate adding to the cost of each job by requiring employers to buy more expensive, politically driven health insurance coverage for every employee.
After the Clinton bill, which called for an employer mandate, failed, Democrats came to recognize the opportunity that the Chafee bill had presented.
The final proposal created an employer mandate requiring that businesses provide coverage to at least 80 percent of their workers.
Notice that this completely solves the problem of the uninsured without any individual or employer mandate, which are unnecessary gateways to enormous trouble.
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