{"id":18987,"date":"2013-09-26T16:52:17","date_gmt":"2013-09-26T20:52:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=18987"},"modified":"2013-09-26T16:52:17","modified_gmt":"2013-09-26T20:52:17","slug":"senate-dem-backs-individual-mandate-delay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/18987\/senate-dem-backs-individual-mandate-delay\/","title":{"rendered":"Senate Dem Backs Individual Mandate Delay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Referring to a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/2013-09-26\/democrat-manchin-breaks-ranks-to-back-mandate-delay.html\" target=\"_blank\">yearlong delay in imposing ObamaCare\u2019s individual mandate<\/a>, Senator Joe Manchin, Democrat of West Virginia, told Bloomberg, \u201cThere\u2019s no way I could not vote for it. It\u2019s very reasonable and sensible.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, it is. Conservative health policy experts James Capretta and Yuval Levin make a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.weeklystandard.com\/articles\/soft-underbelly-obama-care_742475.html\" target=\"_blank\">persuasive case<\/a> on the merits for doing so. The core of their argument: It\u2019s just plain fair.<\/p>\n<p>Ever since the Obama administration decided to delay the employer mandate for a year Republicans have argued that the same relief should be extended to individuals and families.<\/p>\n<p>Putting a one-year delay of the individual mandate into each of the next \u201cmust-pass\u201d bills would give Republicans in Congress the leverage they need to put Democrats on the record.<\/p>\n<p>Is shutting down the government more important than treating families at least as good as businesses? Is raising the debt ceiling?<\/p>\n<p>If liberals want to bring government to a standstill to defend discrimination, let them.<\/p>\n<p>Chances are, if Republicans pursue this strategy more red state Democrats like Manchin will also come to see the GOP\u2019s delay proposal as \u201cvery reasonable and sensible.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As Manchin points out, \u201cIf you know you couldn\u2019t bring the corporate sector, you gave them a year, don\u2019t you think it\u2019d be fair?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sounds good to me, Senator. Time to convince a few more members of your caucus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Referring to a yearlong delay in imposing ObamaCare\u2019s individual mandate, Senator Joe Manchin, Democrat of West Virginia, told Bloomberg, \u201cThere\u2019s no way I could not vote for it. It\u2019s very reasonable and sensible.\u201d Indeed, it is. Conservative health policy experts James Capretta and Yuval Levin make a persuasive case on the merits for doing so. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[84,4191,3308,311,2217,35,1447],"class_list":["post-18987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-congress","tag-delay","tag-health","tag-individual-mandate","tag-joe-manchin","tag-obamacare","tag-reform"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18987"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18987\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18991,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18987\/revisions\/18991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}