Administration Announces Another Obamacare Delay

As
expected, the Obama administration announced yet another delay
to Obamacare this afternoon. Via Politico:

The Obama administration will allow some health plans that fall
short of Obamacare coverage requirements to continue past the
November elections and through most of President Barack Obama’s
second term.

The decision, announced Wednesday by federal health officials,
extends for two years an earlier decision by the White House to let
people keep their existing health plans through 2014, even if those
plans fell short of the Affordable Care Act requirements.

Without the change, Democrats worried that another wave of
canceled health policies would hit in October, stirring up another
round of controversy as the midterm elections approached.

If you like your plan, you can keep your plan…until 2016. If
your state insurance commissioner agrees. 

So, the timeline thus far goes something like this: President
Obama signs a law into effect, promises that it won’t do something
he knows full well it will do, and insists to opponents that it
can’t be undone because it’s the law of the land; then when it
eventually does that thing that he promised it wouldn’t do, and
Democrats start to panic about the unpleasant political
consequences, he responds by altering its implementation using
dicey legal authority.