The Issue: The Obama administration’s decision to delay the employer mandate in ObamaCare by a year.
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The delay of the insurance mandate for businesses in the implementation of the Un-Affordable Care Act demonstrates that the While House knows that this debacle is exposed for the fraud that it is (“The Rapid Collapse of ObamaCare,” Rich Lowry, PostOpinion, June 6).
The White House suspended the business mandate and not the individual mandate because businesses would lay off employees, thus raising unemployment before the upcoming midterm elections.
Since dates of implementation are part of the law, only an act of Congress can change them. However, we have seen that this White House shuns the law and makes decisions based on political need. They should have called this abomination ObamaDon’tCare.
Elio Valenti
Brooklyn
Thinking Americans of all political stripes knew that ObamaCare was too good to be true and said so. The legislation never enjoyed majority support and became law without Republican votes.
As we watch the train wreck in real time, we marvel at the excuses, euphemisms and verbal legerdemain of the bill’s defenders, and wonder why no one in the Obama apparatus thinks simply to tell the truth about this derailing debacle. Paul Bloustein
Cincinnati
This legislation continues to fall apart, even as the Obama administration insists on seeing it as a warrant to run the American health-care system “one executive decision at a time.”
For a variety of reasons, I spent the past two months in hospitals. I’ve observed that not a single health-care professional is happy with this law. They complain about increased bureaucracy and complexity, uncertainty about the future, negative impact on their compensation and confusing decisions from insurance companies.
I was also introduced to “boutique medicine,” where one pays a yearly rate to get the kind of attention from a doctor that our grandparents used to get. Doctors are fed up with ObamaCare and are moving on.
Obama’s signature legislation may go down in the history books as the most spectacular of his unfulfilled promises.
Marcio Moreira
Chatham, NJ