N.J. business groups pleased with health care law delay
Tuesday July 2, 2013, 8:33 PM
BY LINDA MOSS
STAFF WRITER
The Record
New Jersey business trade groups and employers were surprised, and pleased by the Obama administration’s decision to delay implementation of the requirement for businesses to provide health insurance.
“This is a win for businesses,” said Kathleen Alexander, a principal at the Clifton accounting firm Sax Macy Fromm & Co., which has been helping companies navigate the health care changes. “They are so inundated with the sluggish economy, with trying to recover from Sandy, there’s just so much on the plate, and then trying to prepare and comply with the complex regulations of the Affordable Care Act. It’s just impossible to keep everything going.”
Alexander said she expected to hear from very relieved clients on Wednesday morning.
Tracy Straka, chairman of the Commerce and Industry Association of New Jersey (CIANJ) and executive vice president of Creamer Environmental Inc. in Hackensack, welcomed the news for her trade group and her company, which has 70 employees.
“I am absolutely thrilled,” Straka said. “First of all, nobody understands what they have to do, when they have to do, why they have to do … There’s a lot of unanswered questions where there’s no mechanism to get answers.”
For example, Straka said that her company, which does environmental cleanups, employs union workers for varying amounts of time ranging from three days to three months. Yet she has been unable to get an answer as to who is responsible for health coverage for such workers, or if they needed to turn to health exchanges.
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