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" Whoops, here&amp;#039;s another part of the Affordable Care Act that has to go back into the shop because it&amp;#039;s starting to leave gears, and bolts, and piston rods all over the road. Unable to meet tight deadlines in the new health care law, the Obama administration is delaying parts of a program intended to provide affordable health insurance to small businesses and their employees - a major selling point for the health care legislation.The law calls for a new insurance marketplace specifically for small businesses, starting next year. But in most states, employers will not be able to get what Congress intended: the option to provide workers with a choice of health plans. They will instead be limited to a single plan. This choice option, already available to many big businesses, was supposed to become available to small employers in January. But administration officials said they would delay it to 2015 in the 33 states where the federal government will be running insurance markets known as exchanges. And they will delay the requirement for other states as well. There are several reasons why the ACA came out of Congress as a jerry-rigged, inherently self-sabotaging beast of a bill. One of these reasons was that &amp;quot;compromise,&amp;quot; and its idiot stepbrother, &amp;quot;bipartisanship,&amp;quot; combined to make simply getting a deal done the reason for passing the thing. And the problem with the deal that finally got done was that it insisted on keeping health-insurance companies in charge of health-care coverage in this country. This necessitated the creation of a bill that had to be both sufficiently progressive and sufficiently deferential to major corporate interests. So we get a push-me-pull-you out of the deal. If all of the elements of this ever come fully on-line, I&amp;#039;ll be amazed. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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