If you're a small businessman and need to find a group plan for your employees, you are SOL this year. The president has unilaterally delayed the online small business exchange for a year, leaving owners and their employees to scramble to find coverage. The Hill: Companies with fewer than 50 employees were slated to begin buying coverage through the Small Business Health Options Program (SHOP), an online ObamaCare exchange, this month. The exchange's delay means small businesses will instead have to seek out coverage through an agent or broker. On a conference call with reporters, Centers for Medicaid and Medicare spokeswoman Julie Bataille said the delay was the result of the administration concentrating its focus and energy on getting the online exchange for individuals up and running by Nov. 30.  Bataille argued that since many small businesses already go through agents and brokers, the disruption would be small because employers are already familiar with the...(Read Full Post)