WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama’s decision to delay implementation of part of his healthcare reform law will cost $12 billion and leave a million fewer Americans with employer-sponsored health insurance in 2014, congressional researchers said Tuesday.The report by the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office is the first authoritative estimate of the human and fiscal cost from the administration’s unexpected one-year delay announced July 2 of the employer mandate – a requirement for larger businesses to provide health coverage for their workers or pay a penalty.The analysts said the delay will add to the cost of “Obamacare’s” insurance-coverage provisions over the next 10 years. Penalties paid by employers would be lower and more individuals who otherwise might have had employer coverage will need federal insurance subsidies.
"It may cost the government 12 billion but it will save a whole lot of democrap asses in the 2014 elections, which is, of course, why the Asshole in Chief ordered to delay it. This only proves the only jobs Hussein cares about are Democraps up for re-election next year. Just looking at that smug little chicken- necked bastard galls me to no end. This POS does not care how many or who
