The Washington Post reports in its “Wonkblog” blog on a study by the Congressional Budget Office finding that the Administration’s delaying of the employer healthcare coverage mandate under the Affordable Care Act has added $12 billion to the overall cost of the legislation, mostly due to reduced fines that would have been levied against employers for failing to comply.
The rest is chiefly due to the CBO projecting greater use of exchanges with a resulting larger Federal subsidy.
That is, at least in part, due to the CBO’s projection that the delayed mandate will result in “1 million fewer people” having “employer-sponsored coverage in 2014 than previously forecast.”
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