It is official: ObamaCare is going to be an election year issue in 2014, despite the wishes of the Progressive Collectivists.

ObamaCare has already failed but without the benefit of any media announcement.  Think about it.  We are now being told that the heart of the legislation as regards Medicare reform, something known as the "Basic Health Plan,"   cannot be installed (at least) until 2015,  if at all.  More than this,  26 states have decided not to implement their Insurance Collectives ,  forcing the Democrats and compromised GOP stooges to shell out the funds and write the legislation for each of those states refusing to cooperate.  Average health care costs for a family of five,  have increased by $1,900,  in the two years since ObamaCare was signed into law with another $2,000 coming our way by the end of 2015.  Another shocker:  somewhere between 30 and 45 million Americans will NOT be covered,  destroying the fantasy that this bill represents "universal" health coverage. The fact is this:  before ObamaCare was passed,  about 15 million Americans did not have their own healthcare plan.  

Delays in implementing popular pieces of ObamaCare are hurting it with Democrats.

Ahead of an election year in which Republicans promise to make healthcare an issue again, Democrats are criticizing the White House for delaying policies that could help build support for the unpopular law.

Democrats complained this week about a one-year delay in a key program designed to help small businesses — a central selling point for the healthcare law that now won’t be in place when voters head to the polls next year.

“Senate Republicans will have the opportunity to campaign against Obamacare's rising health care costs, burdensome paperwork and broken promises and could use it to motivate voters against Democrat candidates, especially vulnerable ones in red states,” Republican strategist Ron Bonjean said.

HHS has delayed by one year a provision that would have allowed small businesses in most states to choose from multiple policies for their workers. Although a handful of states will see increased competition next year, most will have just one plan to choose from until 2015.

Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-La.) told The New York Times the delay will “prolong and exacerbate health care costs that are crippling 29 million small businesses.”

Democrats are also complaining more openly about other implementation delays. And the substance of the law itself isn’t immune from bipartisan criticism — 33 Senate Democrats cast a non-binding vote last month to repeal the law’s tax on medical devices, saying it’s a threat to innovation that could raise costs for consumers.

The party has long acknowledged that the Affordable Care Act has its flaws. Their new openness about those flaws comes after Obama’s reelection, which ensured that the law would not be repealed before it’s fully implemented.

But it also comes just ahead of the 2014 election cycle, when vulnerable Democrats in conservative states will have to defend their votes for the health law. . . . . .   read the full article at TheHill.com