Why do Republicans want a 1-yr delay of the health insurance mandate? The simple math

[ProgressiveEconomist]

13. On Fox News Sunday, a GA R just repeated the STUPID argument

that "Obama delayed the employer mandate, whiy can't he delay the consumer mandate" for the same period.

Mike Wallace must be rolling over in his grave to hear his son Chris not question that STUPID assertion of equivalence by Tom Graves (R-GA 14th).

Here is a point REALLY "in the weeds" about the delay of the employer mandate: Delay of the employer mandate is partly a result of Republican House obstruction of the "family fix" to the ACA.

The ACA requires employees to get health insurance from their employers (not from the exhanges) unless that employer insurance costs more than 9.5 percent of the employee's earnings. However, a technical mistake was made in the original bill. The 9.5 percent applies only to the premium for the employee him- or herself, NOT the premium for the employee's entire family.

Because of Republican obstruction of the "fix" for this obscure technical mistake, millions of young healthy workers would be kept off the exchanges if their employers started offering insurance now. The delay in the employer mandate.is a partial "fix" for the "family fix" the Rs are obstructing.