Rubio: Great Obama Changed on HHS Mandate but Health-Care Law Needs to Go

U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., has been one of the leading critics of the Department of Health and Human Services' mandate that employers must provide birth-control coverage -- even companies affiliated with religious institutions opposed to birth control.

With President Barack Obama retreating from that mandate on Friday, Rubio said the health-care law the Democrat incumbent signed in 2010 needs to be repealed so religious liberty and other rights can remain secure.

Its good that the president reaffirmed that the federal government cannot force faith-based institutions to provide services that they teach are wrong, Rubio said. Unfortunately, as more of these rules are written, our constitutional rights will continue to be threatened by the administrations policy goals. This issue exemplifies the problem with putting the federal government in charge of health care, and shows why we must fully repeal Obamacare."