time for hits and misses of the week. this is a hit for our colleague and beloved friend dorothy rabinowitz, the city bike program in new york city she famously detests is running into serious financial trouble because of a hard winter and mismanaged financials. i like the city bike program as many other people do. it s fun to see a colleague so richly vindicated as in this case. joe. a hit to the fbi sting that exposed leyland ghee, a long-time california politician and state senator, big proponent of gun control. he is actually an international
to the supreme court this week as justices heard a major challenge to the birth control mandate. oral arguments in the hobby lobby case came the same day the administration announced yet another delay in the health care law girl those who claimed to have difficulty signing up for insurance through the federal exchanges more time despite monday s official enrollment deadline. joining the panel, dan henninger, joe rago. kim, let me go to you first. what does it say about whether there will be any deadline at all? we don t think there will be any deadline at all. all you have to do to qualify is check a little box on the website that said you tried to get health care and you just didn t meet the deadline. in terms of how long that will go on, the regulations say at least at the moment it s
to the supreme court this week as justices heard a major challenge to the birth control mandate. oral arguments in the hobby lobby case came the same day the administration announced yet another delay in the health care law girl those who claimed to have difficulty signing up for insurance through the federal exchanges more time despite monday s official enrollment deadline. joining the panel, dan henninger, joe rago. kim, let me go to you first. what does it say about whether there will be any deadline at all? we don t think there will be any deadline at all. all you have to do to qualify is check a little box on the website that said you tried to get health care and you just didn t meet the deadline. in terms of how long that will go on, the regulations say at least at the moment it s indefinite. there is no final deadline in terms of when you no longer qualify for that. this is a sort of permanent extension. does this suggest that the individual mandate which the presi
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. the administration s actions are showing that the employers are right. that there is economic harm. let s put off the employer mandate for two years. are employers going to change their behavior if they know they ll have to provide health insurance in another year? i don t think it mitigates the damage to a great degree. that s why it also speaks to politics. they are looking for an alibi. the other thing going on h
numbers, nearly 2 million people selected a plan at the end of the december. less than a 1/4 of those are between the ages of 18 to 34, crucial to the law s success. the white house is calling in the star power with hopes of driving young people to enroll. basketball legends magic johnson and alonzo mourning began appearing in tv ads airing nationally during nba games. you never know when you re going to need it. it s very important. young people think they re superman, like nothing will ever happen to them. trust me, one day something is going to happen and you re going to need a quality health plan. make sure you get obamacare. we are back with dan henninger and joe rago. how much are the enrollment figures below the target that the administration had? what they are shooting for is