As the New York Times reports, organizations that provide home health care or nursing home care are seeking waivers from Obamacare, which would otherwise compromise their ability to provide care. The Times writes that “many nursing homes and home care agencies, alarmed at the cost of providing health insurance to hundreds of thousands of health care workers, have started a lobbying effort seeking some kind of exemption or special treatment” from Obamacare’s requirement that employers must provide government-approved health insurance or else pay fines. 

The Times elaborates:  “Starting in 2014, the law will require employers with 50 or more full-time employees to offer affordable coverage or risk paying a penalty.  For a midsize nursing home, that penalty could easily exceed $200,000 a year.  Nursing home executives are urging Congress and the Obama administration to spare them from the penalties.”