delay in the individual mandate, for example? you know, i think that would be okay, but really, a delay is not we need permanent solutions. business owners need to know what to count on and what the future, and be able to plan. changes and fixes and relief, we really want them to be permanent. okay. joe olivo, jean kearn, thank you for joining us. thank you. instead of spending cuts, what is congress planning in the new year? and forget dancing. rob s running again. let s get together and feel all right. who do i speak to about the code of conduct. with respect to the code of
there s nothing you can do, is there? the obamacare law is up, running, not going to be repealed anytime soon. you have to live with it, joe. that s the concern. in the past at least i had flexibility. i was able to pick plan that worked for the demographics of our company and our employees. this is just further limited our ability to provide a benefit for our employees, and we may not be able to provide it going forward, and that s my real concern. jean, what is your group doing about this? well, right now we re actually actively trying to collect these stories so we can show members of congress and the administration how dire the situation is. i am encouraging everybody to tell their story and we can shine light on this and show it s got to change. something needs to be done. not a going to change anytime soon, jean? we d like too find some relief. would you favor a one year
doubling. tell be empty deductibles. that s another huge increase issue. the self-employed like to have try to get a catastrophic or high deductible plan because it s more affordable, and now their tee ductibles are going way up and so everything is more expensive. the premiums premium deductible. joe, request joe, you run a printing business. are you going to hire more people? right now we re carefully watching who we re hiring. we re actually depending on how the government calculates it, we re right around the 50 employee mark. another provision of the law that is difficult north just the sheer number of employees. i have to track hour by hour the cumulative amount that my employees work in total to make sure i don t go over the 50 mark yet because i want to see the full ramifications of the law down the line.
contamination of local streams. we have significant investment that we need to continue to make in our infrastructure. we are trying to confront the challenges with you in some of the same way as we confront all our environmental programs through innovation and through innovation in the technologies that we use and employ to lve the problems. last year, administrator jackson outlined a comprehensive drinking water strategy that lays a plan to address water contaminants in groups as opposed to when the time. it uses available stories that the epa has in other statutes like toxca that i mentioned or pesticide laws to try to get ahead of contamination and protect the water become before it becomes aroblem. this can capitalize on both technology advancement and treatment efficiency. we have begun to make progress on these goals and we are exploring the uses of those statutes to help prevent pollution before it gets into the drinking water. in the coming months, we will begin th
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