On the delay of the employer mandate.
No one with a working knowledge of the statute or the avalanche of regulations promulgated in its wake is at all surprised that the scope of this component exceeded the time budget allotted and advertised by the administration. Over-committed and under delivered. Not dissimilar from the ubiquitously mismanaged PCIP program.
Someone call it.
One can only wonder about the fate of other massive undertakings like the world's largest and most ambitious IT project, which happens to be in the works right now and under the complete cover of night: the exchange data hub. This is the system where Social Security Administration, the IRS, the Department of Homeland Security, the Veterans Administration, Office of Personnel Management, the Department of Defense, and the Peace Corps, and state Medicaid merge data for the sole purpose of vetting Medicaid, CHIP, and PPACA state subsidy eligibility. This is happening in 50 states, which is far more ambitious and an even tighter relative deadline. We were promised that this will be fully functional in all states on Oct. 1.
This won't be the last.
Once again, anyone who's lived through a data migration or new system install at the office will understand that this deadline, too, is an absolute pipe dream. The difference here is that failure to be on time is not the delay of a tax; instead, it's the delay of a promised benefit. More political damage attached to this likely upcoming mess.
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