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“ this allows employers the time to washington — in a significant setback for president obama ’s signature domestic initiative , the administration on tuesday abruptly announced a one - year delay , until 2015 , in his health care law ’s mandate that larger employers provide coverage for their workers or pay penalties .
article excerpt the obama administration said tuesday it would delay enforcing a provision of the new health - care law that requires large employers to provide coverage for workers or pay a penalty in 2014 , the biggest revision so far to the federal health - care overhaul .
white house officials cast the delay as a decision necessary to give employers more time to comply with the rules , while republicans said it showed president obama 's signature legislative achievement was fatally flawed .
the obamacare employer mandate requiring businesses to provide their workers with health insurance will be delayed by a year , the administration said tuesday in a stunning announcement .
in a white house blog post , senior adviser valerie jarrett wrote tuesday that the delay would give employers more time to adjust to the system .
[ watch video ] delaying the requirement until 2015 is an enormous victory for businesses that had lobbied against the healthcare law .
while the postponement technically does not affect other central provisions of the law — in particular those establishing health insurance marketplaces in the states , known as exchanges , where uninsured americans can shop for policies — it threatens to throw into disarray the administration ’s effort to put those provisions into effect by jan. 1 .
republicans ’ gleeful reactions made clear that they would not cease to make repeal of obamacare a campaign issue for the third straight election cycle .