Marco Rubio Pleads to Obama to Delay Health Care Mandate

On Friday, U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., released a letter he sent to President Barack Obama to delay imposing the individual mandate included in the federal health-care law due to website problems and other issues. As of now, the mandate will start on Jan. 1.

Given your own admission that the websites problems cannot be sugar-coated, I believe my legislation rests on common ground between us, despite our differences over Obamacare as a whole, and is therefore deserving of your support, Rubio wrote. In fact, six Democratic senators have already announced their support for delaying the mandate, giving such a measure enough votes to pass with bipartisan support.

Americans cannot afford to have the federal government picking their pockets as a punishment for something that was the governments fault to begin with, Rubio continued. While I certainly remain dedicated to fully repealing and replacing Obamacare, this current measure is about simple fairness and should be above controversy.