Marco Rubio and Trey Radel Look to Delay Health Care Mandate

Two Florida Republicans -- U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio and U.S. Rep. Trey Radel -- teamed up on Monday to introduce a bill delaying the individual mandate in President Barack Obamas federal health-care law until six months after the exchange website gets the approval of the Government Accountability Office (GAO). Last week, Rubio said he would introduce a bill to help Americans who continue to have problems accessing the website.

It is unacceptable that Americans will soon be forced to pay a fine for not purchasing insurance when the very websites they are supposed to use for purchasing it have been rendered useless from numerous glitches and technical errors, said Rubio. Americans already have too many financial burdens for Washington to go adding another useless and unjust tax, especially when that tax punishes the American people for the governments own errors. I believe Obamacare must eventually be entirely repealed and replaced, but until that becomes possible we must continue to focus on protecting Americans from the laws ongoing problems.

The president has given big business and corporations an exemption from his signature law, it only seems fair to give you and your family a break from the fine as well, said Radel. The Rubio-Radel bill ensures the Obamacare fine will be delayed until the administration can show Healthcare.gov and all other sign-up options are fully functional.