In Hawaii, Firms Like Longtime Employer Mandate

Obamacare's Polarizing Employer Mandate Is At Home In Hawaii
Group of cheerful doctors standing together and looking at camera.
Group of cheerful doctors standing together and looking at camera.

Obamacare's requirement that large companies offer health insurance may be polarizing for much of the nation -- but it had Hawaiians at Aloha.

Unlike its 49 counterparts, Hawaii has been living with a strict employer mandate for nearly 40 years. And as businesses nationwide celebrate a one-year delay in the similar Obamacare requirement that they cover workers, supporters of Hawaii's law say theirs is proof that the rest of the country could adjust -- and even learn to like it.

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