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You mentioned the employer mandate being delayed by one year to 25th teen. that is for companies with 50 workers or more, that they wont have to provide insurance benefits until that time, 2015. friday, july 5th, often times in washington we get the friday afternoon document dump if it is not something the administration is wanting to tout. this was particularly interesting friday dump because it was friday afternoon of a holiday weekend. hhs came up with their final rule on obamacare and it was...

Subsidy. if employers dont have to provide health care for the next year, david, what does that mean for the cost of this all and the amount of subsidies that actually goes out to people? >> it means in the law will cost the government a whole lot more than was intended or it was sold as costing. because youre going to have employers not paying fines for not providing health care if they dont provide health care already. and that money was calculated as a way to help pay for the subsidies. that ...

I cant work with medicare any more because im getting so restricted by regulations. suck money out of medicare, penalties, businessman date theyre going to lose now. suck money from the individual mandate. patients are going to have to go to the state exchanges, because employers are going to continue to drop them. without the mandate, even more employees are going to have to go to the state exchanges. were starting the state exchanges this year, sure, but theyre going to be overloaded with empl...

Joining me now to explain how this will affect doctors and businesses are from national review magazine john fund and dr. mark seigel this, is perfect. mark seagulls. we get the political effect and the medical effect. doctor, tell us how is this going to affect the average americans interaction with obama care? >> to start with, joe trippy is totally wrong, businesses have been anticipating this problem, and the insurance policies theyve been able to offer their employees has been changing. und...

Of massive layoffs and work hour reductions. >> the bottom line dollar its costing businesses is astronomically high. thats causing them already in anticipation to dump employees. theyre going to have to go to the state exchanges. also its causing them to make employees more part time. >> while critics say this is a blatant political move to protect democrats in the mid term election, the white house defends the delay say they are listening to the concerns out there pr-t business community -- fr...

Be of delaying this. a lot of companies say in order to be forced to comply and provide health care coverage for worker these will have to layoff a lot of workers. right before the mid-term you could conceivably add a lot of layoffs. because of the demands required by the health care law. you could understand to your point why you and so many others are saying it is in the administrations interest certainly ahead of the mid-term not to force that provision. you would be looking at layoffs around...

One-sixth of the country. nobody understands it. we dont understand it. the people implementing it dont understand it. the account ebbets say you have -- act -- accountants say you have to lay people off and get rid of health care plans altogether. they people will go on state exchanges. nobody knows what a state exchange is. this country is now in turmoil as a result of this. what does obama do? he says lets put it off a year so we can get more democrats elected to the house of representatives....

Surprise, surprise. joining me now to explain how this will affect doctors and businesses are from the national review magazine, and from the fox news medical a team dr. mark seagulls. we get the political effect and the medical effect. doctor, tell us how is this going to affect the average americans interaction with obama care? >> to start with, joe trippy is totally wrong, businesses have been anticipating this problem, and the insurance policies theyve been able to offer their employees has ...

I cant work with medicare any more because im getting so restricted by regulations. suck money out of medicare, penalties, businessman date theyre going to lose now. suck money from the individual mandate. patients are going to have to go to the state exchanges, because employers are going to continue to drop them. without the mandate, even more employees are going to have to go to the state exchanges. were starting the state exchanges this year, sure, but theyre going to be overloaded with empl...

Happen. we dont have state exchanges set up. >> gregg: they have to start operating initially october 1st. >> they are supposed to. >> the 33 states that opt out and obama administration has given 2,000 waivers to companies that supported it. >> why? they are the ones that were behind it. very interesting. >> gregg: well wait to see what happens. brenda buttner, thanks very much. kach catch her on "bulls and bears" right here on the fox news channel. >> heather: coming up we are following breaki...