Marco Rubio Calls Delaying Obamacare Mandate 'Common Sense'

U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., took to the airwaves after the Senate shot down his call for unanimous consent to approve his bill to delay the individual mandate included in President Barack Obamas federal health-care law due to the continued problems with Healthcare.gov.

Rubio appeared on Greta Van Sustrens program on Fox News on Wednesday night to weigh in on the health care law.

I want to fully repeal Obamacare, Rubio said. I think were going to have to. As this thing rolls out, we are going to continue to see the disaster that it is and the impact that its having on people. But in the interim, were having real people call us every day about how concerned they are about the impact that its having on them. Here is why: Next year if they dont have health insurance that complies with Obamacare, the IRS is going to fine them, but the website theyre supposed to go on to buy that insurance doesnt work. And so my bill is pretty straightforward. Its kind of a common-sense thing. It just says that you cant start enforcing those fines on people until the website is fully functional, and I dont understand why, but the Democrats have opposed it. I guess I do understand why and that is at this point, they are against any changes to the law even if the law is hurting people.