Sen. Tom Harkin (D-IA) on Thursday shrugged off White House claims that people challenging the legality of the Obamacare employer mandate delay were “willfully ignorant about past precedent,” the Des Moines Register reported.
“I may be ignorant, but I’m not willfully so,” Harkin laughed on a conference call with reporters, as quoted by the Register.
“I didn’t agree with the administration on it, but it’s not a dagger to the heart of the Affordable Care Act,” Harkin said of the delay, adding that in his view the health insurance exchanges are more important than the employer mandate, according to the Register.
