Sen. Joe Manchin (D., W.V.) said no one should be forced to buy an inferior, more expensive policy under Obamacare Sunday on This Week.
The answer was prompted by host George Stephanopoulos asking if he had seen any indication from the Obama administration that it would be amenable to a delay:
GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS: Senator Manchin, you get the last word. Do you see any indication from anyone in the administration that they're willing to go along with some sort of a delay?
JOE MANCHIN: I'm not sure. I haven't spoken in detail with them. I can tell you, if we have a bipartisan group which we had before with the shutdown to get it back open, we had seven Republicans, six Democrats and an independent. George, nobody should be forced to buy a policy that costs more than what they had and is inferior to what they had. Those things have to be worked out. The new markets that we're opening up basically is going to be good but it has to be affordable. You have to work through this. The transition period of one year is very reasonable and doable, and the fines don't go into effect until 2015. We're still working through it. If you delay it, you're never really going to have to identify the problems and work them out.
[H/T Weekly Standard]