Doesn't anyone have any standing to sue to override the delay of the Affordable Care Act?

[itsrobert]

Or does the law allow for the screwing of employees to give businesses a free pass for a year?

[PoliticAverse]

1. They are just allowing the businesses to not pay fines for inaction.

I'm not sure how you could prove you are harmed by someone else not being fined.

[clffrdjk]

3. With the individual mandate?

does that fine get passed to the individual?
I know I don't have standing I make too little to need to buy my own, but my hours have been cut anyways so the company can avoid paying the fine for me. So now my hours have been cut to avoid a fine that will be delayed a year and we all know I will not get those hours back. All in all I just see this as more capitulating to big business.

[former9thward]

4. Employers were supposed to offer insurance or pay fines.

With the delay the employees go another year without insurance or they will have to pay individual plans. So that is harm. Having said that there may be a provision in the law allowing for waiver. I don't know.

[PoliticAverse]

6. Yes but they never had to offer insurance they could have just paid the fine.

In a sense now the fine was just lowered to 0 for the next year.

[unblock]

2. does the executive branch ever get sued for non-enforcement of laws or sections thereof?

i kinda thought that was exactly what the executive branch did, decide which laws to enforce, and how.

as long as the non-enforcement doesn't violate other laws, or the constitution (e.g., non-enforcement against whites only) then i think the executive branch has wide latitude here.

[madville]

5. The employers sure aren't going to sue

This was in their favor, keeps from cutting into profits or bankrupting them for another year.