My understanding is that delaying select parts of ObamaCare actually make the situation worse.
Insurance companies are still expected to comply with the “shall provide” portions of the law. Yet delaying enrollment and the individual mandate essentially robs them of the $$$ they need to do that.
So, with their financials trending downwards toward - if not into - the red, they’ll have to jack up their premiums and deductibles. In what, should the individual mandate not be implemented soon enough, will be a pretty ugly death spiral.
The truth is that ObamaCare doesn’t really have to be delayed. It needs to be denied oxygen (aka $$$). If enough $$$ is denied and denied at the right time(s) it doesn’t just collapse. It implodes in a massively spectacular fashion that very well could be an object lesson in the “don’t do that” nature of governmental overreach for civics students hundreds of years from now.
Cloward Piven anyone?