Industry reacts to employer mandate delay

EBN asked industry leaders for their thoughts on the employer mandate delay. Here’s what they had to say.

“I’ll be the first to confess that I was shocked by the Administration’s announcement delaying for one year the enforcement of the Affordable Care Act’s employer shared responsibility rules. It would not have surprised me in the least if the Treasury Department and IRS announced a more lenient enforcement standard similar to that adopted with respect other provisions of the law. But a wholesale, unqualified delay did not appear to me to be in the cards.