past 2015. dan, the last thing the administration wants to do is go back and ask congress to revisit the bill, change a little bit. they know they won t just settle for a little bit. there will be a wholesale rewrite the house republicans will insist on. they want to do this unilaterally by themselves. are they going to get away with it? i don t think they are going to get away with it. they turned this exercise into something that sounds like enlistments for world war ii. you show up, you look healthy, get on the ship, find out where we are going once we arrive. really. this is having a bad effect on the reputation of the administration, its competence and its credibility, the president s credibility. that is not going to go away by november of this year when you have those midterm elections.
editorial report. i m paul gigot. the white house waving the employer mandate another year giving 50 to 99 full-time workers till 2016 to provide insurance coverage. what does it mean for the future of obamacare? let s ask joe rago and dan h1e ig henninger. is it economics or politics or both? i think it s both. i think they want an alibi. we are having this furious debate how the affordable care act affects decisions to hire, decisions to work. liberals are saying there is no effect whatsoever. employers are saying there is a lot of damage in the real world.