The U.S. Treasury announced July 2 that it will postpone until 2015 the law's mandate requiring that employers with 50 or more full-time employees offer insurance. In this American Medical News article, Andrea Bailey Powers notes that, while some individuals who might be shut out by their employers may decide to stay uninsured and pay the penalty, the overall net result still will be an increase in the number of covered individuals in 2014, just not as large of an increase because of the 12-month delay in the employer mandate.
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