WH delays implementation of equal coverage provsion thus enabling corporations to [View all]

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provide better coverage to top executives than to the most employees.

(Reuters) - The Obama administration is delaying enforcement of a provision of the new healthcare law that prohibits employers from providing better health benefits to top executives than to other employees, the New York Times reported on Saturday.


Tax officials said they would not enforce the provision this year because they had yet to issue regulations for employers to follow, according to the Times.

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The law, adopted in 2010, says employer-sponsored health plans must not discriminate "in favor of highly compensated individuals" with respect to either eligibility or benefits.

The ban on discriminatory health benefits was to take effect in 2010. Administration officials said then that they needed more time to develop rules and that the rules would be issued well before this month, when other major provisions of the law took effect.


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http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/01/18/us-usa-healthcare-executives-idUSBREA0H0JZ20140118

disgusting pro-corporate pandering from an admin that does a lot of this. Of course, the apologist will make their typical weak excuses- like this is just temporary but they had YEARS to issue regs on this.