Why wouldn't the postponement be a green light for businesses to dump

[cali]

health insurance coverage for employees, and force those folks onto the exchanges?

Do you really trust businesses not to do that?

And why did larger businesses get this pass when smaller businesses did not Smaller businesses do not have to offer insurance but under the ACA, if they do they have to offer plans approved under the ACA that may be more expensive.

Some businesses with +50 employees and those with -50 employees have already dropped coverage. Expect more of that as the individual mandate is rolled out.

[Myrina]

1. Yup. We gotta buy it, but the subsidies won't be expanded & employers don't have to assist/offer ...

.... so say goodbye to whatever extra cash you had leftover in each paycheck, if any.

[Puzzledtraveller]

2. This is going to hurt those who can least afford it

Additionally I am expecting there will a gap between medicaid eligibility in those places that are expanding it and the eligibility for subsidy for those who wil be over the income limit for expanded medicaid coverage.

[cali]

3. yes, that makes sense

I defended the ACA from the start and for quite some time.

Train wreck.

[Jessy169]

4. Some businesses can, and some businesses can't

My company couldn't dump the health insurance plan because if they did, their key employees (including perhaps myself) would bail on them in a heartbeat -- go find a job with a company that treats their employees better -- and my current company would be totally irreversably screwed. Other companies that don't depend on (highly) skilled employees -- or who don't have a reputation to uphold -- can trash their employees and get away with it in the short term at least.