Obama administration again delays deadline for canceled plans

Published March 7, 2014 12:00am ET



The Obama administration said it would allow insurers until October 2016 to issue health plans that do not meet Obamacare regulations, pushing back another Affordable Care Act deadline well past November’s midterms.

Facing the prospect of another wave of cancellation notices coming in the fall, just as voters are heading to the polls, the administration took more action to mitigate the blowback from President Obama’s broken promise that all Americans could keep their health care plans under Obamacare.

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