Obamacare’s Individual Mandate Effectively Delayed Another Month

In a classic Friday news dump, the Department for Health and Human Services has just effectively delayed the individual mandate in President Obama’s health care law for another month, until May 1.

This shift is the latest in a dizzying set of changes that have been made to the enforcement of a policy that the administration defended all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court.

Starting in 2014, individuals who did not purchase government approved insurance were supposed to be subject to a penalty of $95 or 1 percent of taxable income. Under the original sequence of events, individuals would have had until Feb. 15 to purchase insurance without being fined. Last October, HHS created a “hardship exemption” that pushed the deadline to March 31 to coincide with the end of the open enrollment period for individuals seeking insurance through the federal exchange.

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