AP: OK Critics Of Health Law Seize On Delay
Okla. GOP critics of health law seize on delay
By SEAN MURPHY, Associated Press
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma Republican critics of the new federal health care law on Wednesday seized on the delay of a major part of the program as evidence of problems with it.
The Obama administration on Tuesday unexpectedly announced a one-year delay in a key piece of the law that requires many companies to provide coverage for their workers or face fines.
Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt, who has challenged the law in federal court, said the delay is an acknowledgment that the requirements are a “complex, job killing and harmful mandate.”
“Oklahoma’s position has been clear from the beginning that the ‘large-employer mandate’ not only violates the law when implemented in states without a state health care exchange, but cripples businesses with burdensome and onerous requirements and penalties,” Pruitt said in a statement.