That would have been to let it take effect last year, so that people would be having to enroll just before the 2012 election, and would have to be paying the penalty on their taxes for not enrolling on April, 2014.
But, that's water under the bridge, now. Enrollment this year, along with timely warnings about the penalty for not enrolling in October, 2014, would do the same thing. This will be a great campaign issue next fall:
"You will have to pay a $95/adult and $47.5/child penalty in April, 2015, when you file your taxes if you didn't enroll in Obamacare. In 2016, it will be $325/person. In 2017, it will be $695/per person. If you want to stop this, vote for me."
(It's actually more complicated than that, and there are additional thresholds that are used if they are higher, like 1%, 2%, and 2.5% of your income, in successive years).
This is a huge deal. The Republicans are fumbling away a golden opportunity to say: "We tried to stop it, and now you can see why". No more hypothetical arguments: it's real, and it's happening now.
That’s not factoring in the people who will be subsidized by Obamacare and be getting free checks in the mail. And the media and libs will be trying to spin any increase in health insurance rates in the private sector as being by those greedy capitalist corporations, as they try to march the country along on the road to single payer.
Most likely the Democrat response to any problems with Obamacare will be that we need to give more free health care bennies away to the public and charge them less. Then we’ll get talk of a millionaire’s tax and that sort of thing. As we all know, this rhetoric has gotten traction with the public in the Obama era. So to think we have a slam dunk election if Obamacare gets implements, I sincerely doubt it.
The best seems to be to energize the conservative base by actually achieving concrete results that they want. Romney lost because traditional Republican voters didn’t show up. And we won in 2010 due to an energized base that wanted very specific things done.