The administration has decided to delay implementation of the large employer mandate section of Obamacare-- a key element in the overall program-- for a year, until 2015. It seems implementing the mandate is turning out to be more complicated than first thought.
That shouldn't be surprising. The bill creating Obamacare was over two thousand pages long, and many members of Congress have acknowledged they didn't read the whole thing before voting on it. Nasty surprises are perhaps inevitable. Of course, Congress concerns itself with an incredible range of issues. Members probably don't have time to absorb a two thousand page bill, even one that affected a huge part of the economy and the very lives of Americans. That suggests bills should be kept much shorter and more focused. If Congress doesn't read the bills it passes, in what sense are we governed by our elected representatives?
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