Jonathan Chait in New York Mag : "Small, Unnecessary Piece of Obamacare Delayed". - The employer mandate that the Obama administration is delaying is not a central part of the law. You could repeal it without any functional changes to the guts of the law

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This is not the sort of headline Republicans are looking for. So they are instead conflating the employer mandate with the whole law.

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So, the bill to repeal the whole law would fail, the bill to repeal the problematic employer mandate would pass, and then the law would be better, which is the opposite of what Republicans want.

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So, conservatives can rest assured that their fears about the delayed employer mandate wreaking havoc with Obamacare are based on a lack of factual understanding, and enjoy their holiday weekend.

New York Magazine
Obamacare Still Not Collapsing
By Jonathan Chait
July 3, 2013

Obamacare Still Not Collapsing
 
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