If it’s tat great, Obama doesn’t need the mandate. If the carrot works, you don’t need the stick. So he ought to risk it and delay the mandate. Except then he wouldn’t get the sadistic rush of forcing people to do things against their best interests.
When these people sign up and later find themselves in a real health crisis (other than free birth control pills), we’ll see if obamacare covers cancer treatment and major life threatening surgeries.