WASHINGTON - Republicans exploited takes abrupt administration of the employer mandate in the health law as new evidence that the signature of President Barack Obama domestic policy is unworkable and repeal, an argument that energized the party base before the election of the 2014 Congress.
But the will of the White House to respond to the concerns of business - and avoid the ghost of dismissal from work due to the unpopular law health - political headache one Democrats in races next year.
"The shortest possible time for Obamacare is permanent," leader of the majority of the House, Eric Cantor, R - Virginia, said Wednesday, hours after the Government announced a delay of a year in which requires companies with 50 or more employees for health care for their workers coverage or pay a fine.
House Speaker John Boehner, r-Ohio, said unexpected postponement of the administration of a key provision designed to ensure more Americans was an admission that the 2010 law is unworkable. The Republicans in the supervision of the power house and trade panel embarked upon an investigation of the decision, seeking documents from the Treasury and the departments of health and human services.
In midterm elections depends to a large extent in which the voters of the party base, and Republicans considered the latest twist of an opportunity to the health care law and turn on a GOP base already strongly opposed reform of Obama. Members of the Republican party in Congress rushed towards the decision of the Administration to make a point hope will resonate with voters in their States.
"I've heard countless entrepreneurs in Maine, who say costly fines and Obamacare provisions offer powerful and perverse incentives not to hire new workers or to cut back on the hours that their employees can work," said Senator Susan Collins, who faces re-election next year.
In its strategy for the next year's elections, Republicans were determined to focus on how small and medium enterprises would respond to the requirement of the law and the possibility of that would result in job losses. The Republican Party was ready to blame the Democrats who voted for the law, if the companies had to lay off workers.
The delay of one year to January 2015 largely erase that aspect of the criticism of health in mid-term election year.
Ken Hoagland, President of the voice of America of conservative restoration and a fierce opponent of the law, said parts of House and the Democrats in the Senate who voted for the law.
"Pushing the economic damage of Obamacare further than the next election it will not change the reality of the damage to employees or the economy in general," Hoagland said in an interview. "It only seeks to protect those responsible for legislation".
Democrats sought to cast the issue as the Administration to listen to the business community.
"The Administration has demonstrated its commitment to implementing the Affordable Care Act with greater flexibility for 4 per cent of United States companies affected by the requirement of the employer's responsibility", House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi said in a statement on Wednesday.
Pelosi argued that a significant majority of companies already providing health insurance to their employees. The legislator from California who was instrumental in securing the passage of the law when he was speaker of the House insisted that the Americans will soon benefit from greater access to affordable health care.
Democrats have always been persecuted by the fact that few Americans understand the law and many fear its effect.
In the most recent survey, the Kaiser Family Foundation found that more Americans see unfavorable law as favorable, a negative inclination that has remained stable since Obama signed it in March 2010. The Foundation this spring survey found 43 percent with an unfavorable opinion of law, 35 percent with a favorable view and 23% undecided.
The poll also found more people saying that the country will be worse under the law better, a change of public opinion immediately after its passage.
Democratic strategist Steve Elmendorf said that Americans oppose the law are vehement while other Americans are waiting to see what happens.
Delay of a year of administration "affects a very small number. ... More people will be impacted by their ability to have insurance in the exchanges, elimination of pre-existing conditions and, ultimately, what the price will be. ... I think that in terms of the 14 elections, I don't see this decision in particular having much impact.
Brad Dayspring, a spokesman for the Committee of the campaign of the Republicans in the Senate, called the movement "the worst of all worlds for the Democratic candidates" because it will frustrate the Liberals who support the law as recently to quiet mockery Republican.
"So what is a democratic candidate to say in the light of this?" Dayspring said. "Do" "" Yes, I have supported Obamacare, but fortunately we have delayed to protect themselves from the bad is "?"
Democratic Senator Heidi Heitkamp, who won last year in North Dakota Republican - leaning, offers a template for how Democrats would respond to questions about health care and the latest initiative of the Administration Act.
"Several times I have said that there are good and bad in health care law, and we have to improve it. A needed improvement is to make it as simple as possible for our businesses to comply. "I applaud the Administration for delaying this requirement until there is a system in place that is viable for the companies, said in a statement.
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