The organization, he said, should "avoid mandating".
"Cast your net as wide as possible," he says, "and avoid exclusive mandates like the plague.
Economists expect some businesses to hire more part-time workers to avoid the mandate, but do not think it is likely that they would do so until late next year.
By acting on his own initiative and sacrificing some territory unilaterally, he hopes to avoid broader, mandated concessions, his allies say.
Last month, an amicus brief was filed by 50 doctors and two nonprofit organizations arguing that Congress could avoid a mandate by legislating a national single-payer system that provides nearly universal insurance coverage.
The result of this misguided policy, the paper continues, is that "[e]mployers are replacing full-time positions with part-time work to avoid the mandate of providing health care insurance".
The Affordable Care Act includes language providing the administration with broad authority to specify who can avoid the mandate because of hardship, which the law describes as "an individual eligible for a hardship exemption, such information as the Secretary shall prescribe".
Darden Restaurants, the parent company behind the Olive Garden and Red Lobster, recently tested out hiring even more part-time workers than usual -- about 75percentt of its workforce is made up of part-time workers -- in an effort to avoid the mandate that employers with 50 or more full-time employees provide health insurance benefits.
If the patient's neurological examination did not improve with time, a trial of extubation was performed at the discretion of the attending physician to avoid the mandate of tracheostomy placement.
Mr. Tauzin left open the possibility that the auto industry could propose steps to increase overall gas mileage to avoid new government mandates, which it has resisted successfully for many years.
