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The Authority for Mandate Delay Act () is a bill that would amend the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act "to delay until 2015 enforcement of requirements that large employers offer their full-time employees the opportunity to enroll in minimum essential coverage."〔 The bill was introduced into the United States House of Representatives during the 113th United States Congress. On July 2, 2013, the Obama Administration announced that it would be delaying one of the key requirements of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (commonly known as "Obamacare"). The requirement that all companies which employed more than 50 workers must offer an employee health insurance plan or pay a fine would now be delayed until 2015, according to the Administration. The announcement was made on the United States Department of the Treasury's website. In that statement, the Administration announced that they would be delaying implementation for a year in order to meet two goals: "First, it will allow us to consider ways to simplify the new reporting requirements consistent with the law. Second, it will provide time to adapt health coverage and reporting systems while employers are moving toward making health coverage affordable and accessible for their employees."〔 Critics sarcastically noted that "despite nearly four years of lead time, (the Obama Administration) still won’t have the capacity to collect from employers the information required to determine which employers will be subject to penalties in 2014." The announcement of the delay was met with criticism by some.〔〔 House Majority Leader Eric Cantor argued that Congress would need to formally approve any delay.〔 The Authority for Mandate Delay Act was introduced by Rep. Timothy Griffin (R-AR) on July 11, 2013 arguing that this would be required to authorize the delay. A second bill, the Fairness for American Families Act () was introduced on the same day by Rep. Todd Young (R-IN).〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d113:H.R.2668:@@@X )〕 The Fairness for American Families Act would apply the same delay to the individual health insurance mandate, an action which the Obama Administration had not planned on.〔 ==Background== (詳細はInternal Revenue Code and in 42 U.S.C.〕 commonly called Obamacare or the Affordable Care Act (ACA), is a United States federal statute signed into law by President Barack Obama on March 23, 2010. Together with the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act, it represents the most significant government expansion and regulatory overhaul of the U.S. healthcare system since the passage of Medicare and Medicaid in 1965. In July 2013, a letter signed by the leaders of the Teamsters, UFCW, and UNITE-HERE stated, "the ACA will shatter not only our hard-earned health benefits, but destroy the foundation of the 40 hour work week that is the backbone of the American middle class... the law creates an incentive for employers to keep employees’ work hours below 30 hours a week... we can no longer stand silent in the face of elements of the Affordable Care Act that will destroy the very health and wellbeing of our members along with millions of other hardworking Americans..."〔(Union Letter: Obamacare Will ‘Destroy The Very Health and Wellbeing’ of Workers ), Wall St. Journal, July 12, 2013〕 On June 28, 2012, the United States Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of most of the ACA in the case ''National Federation of Independent Business v. Sebelius''.〔, including a major provision which requires all Americans purchase health insurance coverage.〕 The law was championed by President Barack Obama and supported by most Democrats, but Republicans have tried numerous times to overturn the law.〔 When the Obama Administration announced that it would be delaying the implementation of part of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, it was seen as a new opportunity to fight against the bill, leading to the proposal of the Authority for Mandate Delay Act and the Fairness for American Families Act. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Authority for Mandate Delay Act」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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