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                    Obama Delays Rollout of Health Care Law

   by VOA News

   U.S. President Barack Obama has decided to delay full implementation of
   his new health care law by allowing Americans to keep canceled health
   plans for an extra year.
   Speaking at the White House after weeks of his administration battling
   broken promises and technical issues, Obama repeated his apologies to
   the five percent of Americans who lost their health care policies due
   to the new law. Insurance companies will now be able to offer those
   people the option to renew their old plans, but companies are not
   required to take that step.
   The president admitted his administration had "fumbled" the roll out of
   the so-called Obamacare, adding he needed to win back some credibility
   with the American people. He said despite these fumbles, he would not
   listen to "brazen" legislative attempts to undermine his heath care
   law.
   Earlier, Speaker of the House John Boehner said the American people
   could not trust the White House and would not let the Obama
   administration "destroy" the best health delivery system in the world.
   "Let us be clear. The only way to fully protect the American people is
   to scrap this law once and for all. There is no way to fix this," said
   Boehner.
   Problems with the health care roll out have plagued the president in
   recent weeks as his popularity has dropped to an all-time low,
   according to a new nationwide poll.
   Health Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said Wednesday that 106,185 people
   had registered for new insurance plans under the health care law.  This
   is barely one-fifth of the nearly 500,000 people administration
   officials had projected would sign up in the first month of the
   president's signature health care program.
   Administration officials are hoping that several million people will
   sign up for plans before the March 31 registration deadline.
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