{"id":20317,"date":"2014-03-14T11:49:38","date_gmt":"2014-03-14T15:49:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=20317"},"modified":"2014-03-14T11:49:38","modified_gmt":"2014-03-14T15:49:38","slug":"obamacare-will-be-a-major-campaign-issue-in-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/20317\/obamacare-will-be-a-major-campaign-issue-in-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"ObamaCare Will be a Major Campaign Issue in 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The latest ObamaCare delay guarantees that the law\u2019s arbitrary implementation will be a huge issue in the 2016 presidential campaign.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe change was included in last week\u2019s announcement that the government would let people keep otherwise out-of-compliance health plans for another two years,\u201d reports <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/2014\/03\/12\/obamacare-band-aid-millions-potentially-exempted-from-individual-mandate\/ \" target=\"_blank\">Fox News<\/a>. \u201cBuried in the official memo was a line giving people whose policies were canceled a \u2018hardship exemption\u2019 through October 2016.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That means no who qualifies for this exemption has to pay a fine under the individual mandate until President Barack Obama is leaving office.<\/p>\n<p>Talk about forcing someone else to do make all the hard decisions. Because of the current president\u2019s refusal to shoulder the burdens of implementing his own law it seems like a certainty that the campaign to succeed him will be dominated by questions he can\u2019t bear to answer now.<\/p>\n<p>In short, get used to ObamaCare being a flashpoint in our politics for a long time to come.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The latest ObamaCare delay guarantees that the law\u2019s arbitrary implementation will be a huge issue in the 2016 presidential campaign. \u201cThe change was included in last week\u2019s announcement that the government would let people keep otherwise out-of-compliance health plans for another two years,\u201d reports Fox News. \u201cBuried in the official memo was a line giving [&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":[3887,4191,3308,311,1829,35],"class_list":["post-20317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-3887","tag-delay","tag-health","tag-individual-mandate","tag-insurance","tag-obamacare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20317","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=20317"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20317\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20321,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20317\/revisions\/20321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}