About 10,000 Maryland residents will be affected by the federal government’s decision to delay by a year new rules that require employers to offer health insurance.
About 5,000 people who would have been able to get insurance through their employer beginning in January, when the so-called employer mandate was supposed to take effect, will likely turn instead to the state’s individual health exchange, according to the Governor’s Office of Health Care Reform. An additional 5,000 people will be uninsured as a result of the White House decision July 2 that would push back until January 2015 the key provision of the federal Affordable Care Act that requires companies with at least 50 employees to offer affordable health insurance or pay a penalty.
The rule was originally scheduled to go into effect in January 2014, in concert with other key pieces of the law, such as the requirement that most individuals purchase insurance, called the individual mandate.
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3 comments:
That's all? I would have thought for all the complaining a lot more people would be affected.
it's not affordable. Businesses wont be able to do it. Whet they will do is use this additional year to cut full time employees down to part time and hire additional part time employees to pick up the slack. maybe some will no longer be unemployed but many more will be under employed.
5 million 6 hundred thousand people live in Maryland and only 10k affected? What is all the complaining about?
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