The survey was conducted in June, prior to the Obama administration’s announcement that the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act’s employer mandate will be delayed by one year to 2015. Under the employer mandate, businesses and companies with 50 or more employees are mandated to offer health insurance to those employees or pay a penalty. The rule was originally slated to begin January 2014.
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