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AUSTIN – Arlene Wohlgemuth, Director at the Texas Public Policy Foundation’s Center for Health Care Policy, issued this statement today on the news that the White House is delaying the implementation of the ObamaCare employer mandate for mid-sized companies until 2016: “Today’s questionably legal Executive revision to the Affordable Care Act affirms what the Foundation has long maintained: it is impossible to implement it in a way that does not hurt American businesses and their employees. This mandate from Washington, D.C., augments the power of the federal government at the cost of economic and individual liberty, and in the meantime foments an atmosphere of lawlessness and uncertainty about which parts of ObamaCare will change next, and for how long, and for whom. “The delay of the employer mandate for mid-sized firms until 2016 is good news in the short term for small businesses that would otherwise face crushing fines in 2015. It is bad news in the long term for small and large businesses alike, for whom the cost of providing health insurance on the one hand, or paying fines on the other, will be a significant barrier to growing their companies and hiring new workers. “With the delay coming on the heels of a Congressional Budget Office report that projects ObamaCare will result in 2.5 million less full-time jobs by 2024, Americans are beginning to realize the full implications of this ill-conceived law. Clearly, the time has come to repeal the ACA and replace it with health care reform that is free of cumbersome government mandates, restores individual liberty, and empowers Americans to make their own decisions about health care coverage.”
The Honorable Arlene Wohlgemuth is the executive director and director of the Center for Health Care Policy at the Texas Public Policy Foundation. She served 10 years in the Texas House of Representatives, specializing in health care issues. The Texas Public Policy Foundation is a non-profit, free-market research institute based in Austin.
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