Exempt the In-Home Care Industry from the Employer Mandate provision of the Affordable Care Act.

Pursuant to US Supreme Court's decision in Olmstead vs. L.C. in 1999, whereby persons with disabilities of any kind (including physical, cognitive and emotional) cannot be forced by the State into institutional settings when community based care is deemed safe and available by treatment professionals, in-home care must remain affordable and free from excessive taxation. The Employer Mandate provision of the Affordable Care Act will significantly escalate the cost of in-home care which will result in a barrier to access to care and force early institutionalization via nursing homes. We ask President Obama and the entire 113th Congress to EXEMPT the in-home care industry from the Employer Mandate provision of the ACA as a means of preserving the rights of the disabled and senior populations.