Is the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act losing some of its teeth?  

The U.S. Department of Labor, using its by-now familiar Q&A format to release new act infomation, is advising businesses  they will not be fined if they fail to notify their workers of their health insurance options by Oct. 1.

Until this week, there was considerable speculation that employers who failed to give written notice to employees outlining their upcoming insurance options faced fines of $100 per day, or even per employee per day, for missing the Oct. 1 notification deadline.

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