White House Delays Individual Mandate for Millions of Americans Until After the Midterms and the President Is Out of Office In a little-noticed regulation last week, the Obama administration suspended for millions of Americans the so-called individual mandate requiring them to purchase health insurance or pay a penalty. White House Delays Individual Mandate for Millions of American Until After the Midterms and the President Is Out of Office President Barack Obama waves as he boards Air Force One, Tuesday, March 11, 2014, at Andrews Air Force Base. (AP/Pablo Martinez Monsivais) The delay will be good until at least 2016. This means that the individual mandate, the “core of the Affordable Care Act,” as the Wall Street Journal termed it, will be put off for millions of American until well after this year’s midterm elections and until President Barack Obama is out of office.
Posted on: Mon, 31 Mar 2014 23:40:17 +0000