Maybe those of us who will be forced into this boondoggle can also complain to the government that there are "too many complexities" to implement it...like big business is doing. But, of course, the government has long past stopped listening to the people...they only listen to big business...the ones with all the money. There has got to be way more complexities outside of big business than inside of it. Big business has mostly young and relatively healthy people compared to the rest of the population. They don't have a lot of poor people, old people, sick people. Just how complex is that? Way more complex than Big Business.

And how are they going to decide who pays what? The complexities range from young to old unemployed or retired people, people who may not work because they are incapacitated.

Insurance companies charge old people way more than they charge young people. They charge people with a history of being ill or incapacitated way more than they do young healthy people with jobs. Talk about complexities...they are all over the place.

What are they going to do? Go around through the streets with bull horns, or mail out what looks like junk mail (opening up yet another way that scammers can steal from Old People), or call us to mandatory community Obamacare education meetings, or start running a series on TV telling us what we have to do, what it will cost each one of us, how we can compute what the insurance companies are going to charge and/or maybe what the government will pay if you are considered not making enough money, will they look at what you have saved up in your banks, or retirement accounts so that they can soak you for whatever they can get? So far, we haven't heard squat! Are they going to just say you are required to have health insurance and you have to go out and decide which one you will sign up with? And if you do how can you be assured that the insurance company is not going to stiff you with whatever high premiums they would have charged you anyway without Obamacare? Will Obamacare really force the insurance companies to adhere to lower prices? I doubt it! What will happen is it will create a hell of a lot of confusion and people will be forced into making big costly mistakes. Insurance companies will take advantage of the confusion and rake in big bucks right out of your bank accounts. There will be a big sucking sound right out of all that money you saved for your retirement. It's going to be a disaster!

Even with taxes...at least we can compute what we owe Uncle Sam...but, I'm afraid, this is going to sneak up on everyone when they just get a bill in the mail saying you have to pay "$THIS MUCH$" every month from now on (until we raise the rates again and again). I think many people will just opt to pay the fine.

The Republicans and their Big Business backers know that the easiest way to circumvent something once it has been written into law is to just get it delayed. Whinge and moan that "it's too complicated to implement quickly" and say that if it isn't delayed "we'll all be runed". Giving Big Business a pass on this REALLY STINKS. After all, who's got all the money from the economy sloshing around in secret tax-haven offshore accounts? Big Business...Yes that means YOU Apple, et al.

Not only no buy HELL NO!

Wait a minute! Large employers are getting a free ride while small business and individuals are still being hit. This is madness! Large employers should be first and foremost held accountable. They have the majority of the workforce, the means and capital, and the moral obligation. Please don't tell me the Obama administration has dropped the ball again! This is getting monotonous!

Evidently.

Of course it is political, everything this manipulating administration orchestrates is for a political agenda, and this is obviously done to get past the 2014 election. But the real story is the perspective that our lord government has postponed their iron fist of mandates for another year, we should all be so thankful for their altruistic generosity. Thanks again Pelosi, Harry the hack Reid, John Roberts, and Obama for pushing through this train wreck. And thanks to all the Democrats who surrendered everyone's healthcare to this now empowered federal government. This is only the beginning of many more destructive revelations to come as this piece of Democrat legislation unfolds.

It's too bad that implementation of this provision is being delayed. Perhaps Congress should have somewhat simplified the rules or allowed for more support to answer questions and assist companies in offering new health insurance coverage for their employees. The following comment is off topic, but I don't know where else to mention it. A few days ago, you were talking about Michigan and stated that Richard Devos and his family own "Tupperware." This is incorrect. Devos was the co-founder of Amway of Ada, a small community adjacent to Grand Rapids. Before making statements about prominient individuals on-the-air, it would be a good idea to do the research and fact-check the information beforehand for the sake of the listeners, who need and want accuracy in what is said.

OH THE TANGLED WEB WE WEAVE.

I agree with your gloom & doom, yet profound, perspective. The only people we can blame for this demise, serfdom, and breakdown of a TRUE Demacratic Government are those that are greedy and abide by a "by any means necessary" ideology. Who specifically are these greedy swine??? EVERY SINGLE AMERICAN THAT HAS VOTED FOR A REPUBLICAN OR DEMOCRAT AGENDA SINCE A CENTRAL BANKING SYSTEM WAS ESTABLISHED.

The pot o water is a bubbl'en!

Right from the start, motivated by the out of control lust for greed and power, it has always been a goal of the rich and well-born to control government. They've always had the fear that with a true democracy such control would be tempered by the vast majority of, we the people. In a true democracy, we the people, would be able to pass legislation providing for social and economic justice. Laws making the rich pay their fair share of taxes and abide by environmental regulations are both good examples of a functional democracy.

The current democratic distemper is necessary to position and give labor a voice and status with ruling class like authority. Once this happens, in my opinion anyway, representative democracy can finally begin to function on behalf of the vast majority as it should.

How do we get there?........Communication is the key. We know the corp. media won't help. However taking to the streets and using social media is what we can do to facilitate this communication. Block ports supplying Walmart with slave produced goods, at least even with temporary disruption word will spread about the global economic injustice monopoly capitalism has wrought. Labor slow downs, wildcat strikes, efforts to unionize all large companies, etc., all would have an impact.

"I guess this is why so many 'cities' turned down Obama's transit money...They can't afford to run them." KEND

Really!?!?Please PLEASE tell me you are just a wee bit more intelligent than your comment lets on.

Cities did not turn down Transit money States did. Here in Florida, the big cities; Jacksonville, Miami, Orlando, Tampa, and 60% of Fl. residents, were in favour of building a High Speed Passanger Rail System that would connect tourist and buisnesses to popular destination and their surrounding communities.
An independent study showed that such a system would have created over 13k jobs, and boosted construction. The study also showed a surplus of 25 million dollars within the first 10 years of opperation.

What was the slogan Dick Scott ran on???? I remember now..."Let's Get To Work!" After 3 years I've yet to see 'ol bald Dick prime the jobs market. The most he has done is enforce voter surpresion policies, cut money for education, Extend punishment to Convicted Felons by denying them a path to reinstate their voting rights (after they have paid their debt to society), and dismantle the Fl. EPA; Which if you don't already know Florida has some of the most diverse eccosystems in the country. Systems that not only support life but also bring in a butt load of tourist money. Without stricted enviromental policy and enforcement, developers will be allowed to clear cut land and back fill wetlands that are vital to a healthy enviroment and prosperous to our (Fl.) economy.

Charlie Crist 4 Govenor 2016

As douglas m says above, I too have "never seen so many people so bad off," and I am 73 years old, which is old enough to remember when the children of Appalachia, walking to and from public school, gleaned lumps of coal off the railroad tracks so their mothers would have sufficient fuel to cook their suppers. The gleaners were the daughters and sons of families so impoverished, the random droppings of steam-locomotive tenders and the region's endless processions of coal trains were often their only source of heat as well. Girls and boys alike carried little burlap sacks -- they called them "pokes" -- in which to fetch home whatever tiny quantities of coal they might find.

But oppressive as the 1950s were, as seemingly bottomless as Appalachian poverty was, the region's children still had rational expectations for at least somewhat better lives. Now though there is no hope at all -- which is why today's poverty is infinitely worse than anything the people of the United States have ever experienced. Yes, just as Mr. Hartmann says, the strikes and protests now sweeping the country have the potential of coalescing into a movement, which could in fact restore hopefulness to some factions within the 99 Percent. But that is not what the One Percent wants. What it wants is workers with the submissive hopelessness of slaves. That's why, the minute any real Working Class movement begins to form, the Ruling Class will again order their bought-and-paid-for politicians to crush it, the legions of oppression will again be unleashed, and like Occupy, the movement will be murdered before it is even fully born.