The Obamacare Fiasco


Published July 11, 2013

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The Obamacare Fiasco

In “Delaying Obamacare,” EPPC Hertog Fellow Yuval Levin explains that the Obama administration’s announcement last week of a one-year delay in the implementation of the employer mandate shows that the White House sees that “the wheels are coming off the bus.

In “The White House’s Peculiar Obamacare Delay,” EPPC Senior Fellow James C. Capretta argues that the delay makes Obamacare “as a whole harder to defend, and makes its champions in Congress more vulnerable.”

And in “The Fiasco That Is Obamacare,” Mr. Capretta sees in the separate announcement of the abandonment of the verification system for the state exchanges “a combination of sheer incompetence and liberal blindness to the limits of the capacities of the federal government.”

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Congressional Testimony on Delay of Employer Mandate

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