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Obama should work with Congress to eliminate employer mandate

By Diana Furchtgott-Roth
Published February 11, 2014 5:00am ET
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Obama should work with Congress to eliminate employer mandate
New data from the Labor Department, released on Tuesday, showed that job opening and hiring rates declined in December from their November levels. (Thinkstock) | Catherine Yeulet

President Obama has done it again. Without consulting Congress, he has once more postponed the requirement that employers with 50 to 99 workers offer generous health insurance or pay a fine–this time until 2016.

Firms with 100 or more employees will have to offer insurance to only 70 percent of full-time workers in 2015 and 95 percent in 2016 and thereafter.

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