I think it’s odd that they can just delay this, assuming the bill has an employer mandate start date of 1-1-14 written into the text of the bill. You can’t just waive that date, but apparently Obama is going to get away with that.
Also, remember that Obamacare was passed in March 2010. We were told that different pieces of the law were being phased in over a period of years, so as to give everyone plenty of time to adjust to the new law.
So we’re saying that over three years later, the Obama administration is so incompetent that they haven’t been able to administer the employer mandate piece of the law in these three years? And so they need another year to do so? Is this for real or is it satire? What does this say about the competence of the Obama administration?
And what does it say about the media, Republicans, and everyone, that the president announces a delay in a major piece of this law, and nobody is calling him out to say that there is a firm start date in the law, which can’t just be waived at the whim of the president?
Obama is not waiving the date he is waiving enforcement of the mandate. The mandate will still be law and enforceable, but King Obama says he will look the other way until after the election.
Obamacare was meant to fail. When the whole thing falls apart, the Dems will say that it just means we need a single-payer, government-run system like those swell systems in other countries. Teddy Kennedy (who has been sober for quite some time now) said this many decades ago. The libs knew government meddling would make things worse, and the ignorant populace would call for even more government to fix the problems government caused in the first place. It is nationalization by stealth.