Here we go: HHS official hints at extending ObamaCare enrollment period as Joe Manchin .....

Hot Air ^ | 6:01 pm on October 23, 2013 | by Allahpundit

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

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Here we go: HHS official hints at extending ObamaCare enrollment period as Joe Manchin drafts bill to delay mandate; Update: WH wants six-week extension?

The ice is starting to crack. First, Manchin:

Republican Marco Rubio of Florida is working on legislation to delay the mandate indefinitely — which Manchin’s office says the senator does not support — and it’s entirely possible the GOP could push for a delay provision to be included as an amendment vote to the next moving vehicle, using Manchin’s effort as leverage inside the Dome and as political fodder outside it, from entities such as the National Republican Senatorial Committee.

It’s not yet clear what the bill would look like. Manchin’s office only would confirm that it’s being discussed and the senator is looking for co-sponsors.

The reason it’s not clear what the bill would look like is because Manchin doesn’t care what it looks like. He knows it won’t pass; Democrats can’t risk wreaking havoc on insurers by suddenly exempting the young and healthy from buying insurance when sick people are coming onto the rolls. He’s doing this not because he believes delay is good policy (I think) but because a splashy proposal to put some distance between him and Obama might impress voters back home. For Manchin, at least, it’s time to head for the lifeboats on ObamaCare. And he’s not the only Democrat who’s inching his way towards that side of the ship:

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Kudlow Report said 5 ot 6 Democrat Senators were calling for a delay.

All up for reelection in Red States.

[Kansas58]

Be careful!
Obama will now try to FIX all of the LEGAL problems with Obamacare, which are now being litigated in the Courts!

I do not think Congress should agree to many changes at all now. Dems will use ANY bill on Obamacare to justify the power that they have given to the Federal Exchange.

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From the article:

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Dana Bash        ✔ @DanaBashCNN

new: senior dem source tells me to expect every sen dem running in 2014 to back @JeanneShaheen proposal to delay #ACA enrollment deadline

1:22 PM - 23 Oct 2013

[VRWC For Truth]

One week later and the ‘Rats now cry uncle. A pox on ‘Rats and RINOs.

[TomGuy]

Articles with commentaries by tech professionals seem to conclude that an extention isn’t going to resolve the issues with the website, that the issues are too substantial.

Extending the deadline another 6 weeks may be insufficient.

[GeronL]

because a delay helps Democrats

[SueRae]

But but but...this was such an EXTREME idea only a few weeks ago... Waiting for Reid to weigh in. And then lose it.

[Vince Ferrer]

Democrats can’t risk wreaking havoc on insurers by suddenly exempting the young and healthy from buying insurance when sick people are coming onto the rolls.

This is the real problem with Obamacare in a nutshell. Insurers are forced to accept pre existing condition people, and must pay for it buy overcharging others. The scheme stands or falls on the young, who will balance it all out by paying but not using services. Or they can just pay a fine and let the system collapse.

[morphing libertarian]

So now the dems are admitting they could have avoided the gov shut down by just agreeing to delay the start?

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

System has problems with its putput to the Insurance Companies....according to what I heard on Kudlow .,..the Ins Companies are saying they were getting Gibberish from the System and their Systems could make sense of it.

They got

BIG Problems.

[randita]

If I were the GOP, I would accept nothing less than a formal apology to Ted Cruz and a 12 month delay (just like the delay for businesses).

Let them eat cake.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Typo :

with its output to the ....

And they Ins Systems could NOT make sense of it.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Republicans need to just BE QUITE....

When your Enemy is making a mess let him continue....

Let the Media FEAST on what the DEMOCRATS are doing/!!!

[Jet Jaguar]

NO DELAY.

It’s the law of the land. (as they call it)

Obama shut the government down in order to fend off a Republican delay.

Let him start the fines for not being able to purchase crap nobody wanted to buy anyway.

[randita]

Correct. Boehner should just call a recess and they should all go play golf.

[Qbert]

Fraud.

[spokeshave]

And they Ins Systems could NOT make sense of it.

Ha...I guess it was coded in Ebonics.....or perhaps an Austrian dialect of Ebonics.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Republicans just need to be quiet....let Obama get his 6 week delay.....

Then watch him squirm when more time is needed.....

Andything the pubbies do or say will be used as an EXCUSE trumpted in the Media ....

Stupid Conservtives need to shut up and let the Disaster roll on....

[thestob]

those damn house republicans only care about one thing...and it’s not obamacare ..it’s amnesty... and they’re going to save Obama from the health care implosion by switching the subject to immigration ...see Boehner and Issa’s statements today ...