Wait, she thinks that’s a delay?

Via RCP:

JON STEWART: So this is what some would consider the first mall that’s been created [for purchasing health care insurance].

KATHLEEN SEBELIUS: You bet. The first — new rules for companies.

STEWART: So why is it that individuals, though, couldn’t say that they didn’t want to do it just for a year, like business?

SEBELIUS: Well, they can.

STEWART: Oh, they —

SEBELIUS: They’d pay a fine. They’d pay a fine at the end of the year, but they don’t have to — I mean, they can say I didn’t want to do it. The theory is they can’t pick and choose if they’re going to get hit by a bus or diagnosed with a illness. For a lot of young folks, there is one fall on the basketball court, one auto accident from a lifetime of hospital bills they can’t pay.

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