White House Agrees to Delay Obamacare Individual Mandate
Amid news that Democrats are pushing for an extension of the enrollment period for health insurance, the White House has announced that it will delay the enrollment deadline for the law’s individual mandate by up to six weeks, pushing it to March 31.
Facing a public that is growing increasingly frustrated with the technical ineptitude of the Obamacare exchanges, Sen. Jeanne Shaheen and several other congressional Democrats urged Obama to give Americans more time to sign up for health insurance. When House Republicans presented a similar idea as a compromise to reopen the government just a few weeks ago, the White House wouldn’t budge. Now that President Obama’s own party is speaking up, however, he appears to be listening.
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