As most people understood long ago, the implementation of the historic Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, a.k.a. Obamacare, is a process, not an event. This is phased-in, long-term legislation that will be tweaked and adjusted over time.
One aspect of the law is that it prohibits employers from providing better health insurance to top management than they provide to the rank and file, or from offering coverage only to top execs. The concept is good, but the application of it will be complex, and so enforcement of it has been delayed until the IRS issues its official guideline on this particular rule.
Robert Pear of the NY Times wrote an article about the delay. It appeared in today in both the Times and the Columbus Dispatch (which relies less and less on original content and more and more on other papers and wire services). Here are the two headlines for the same article. Guess which one is which.
"Rules For Equal Coverage By Employers Remain Elusive Under Health Law"
"Feds Struggle To Implement Equality Rule"
If you're the Times, the "rules are elusive." If you're the Dispatch, the "feds struggle."
Just about every week, the Dispatch's editor Ben Marrison responds to reader criticism and writes a column swearing to god that the paper is not partisan and has no conservative ax to grind. If that were really true, Ben, you wouldn't have to write that same fucking column over and over again.
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