On Wednesday (7/10/2013) U.S. Senator Bob Corker, R-Tenn., joined every Senate Republican in a letter to President Obama urging him to permanently delay the implementation of the health care law.  Last week, the Obama administration announced it will delay implementation of just one component of the health care law, the employer mandate, until 2015.

In their letter the senators say to the president, “[W]hile your action finally acknowledges some of the many burdens this law will place on job creators, we believe the rest of this law should be permanently delayed for everyone in order to avoid significant economic harm to American families.”

In an interview on CNBC’s Squawk Box yesterday, Corker highlighted the negative impact the health care law is having on employers and our economy.  He said, “…I think as we’ve gone beyond the romance of all of this… and people are waking up to look at this bill. I mean, it is a serious pig.  Let’s face it.  Think about it.  In the height of the greatest recession, we create a piece of legislation that says, by the way, if you’ll move your full-time employees down to part-time – wink, wink – you don’t have to cover them on health care…. So I think, look, we need to stop. We need to put this on permanent hold. …Moving back a year is not going to cause people to discontinue this effort of moving full-time folks down to part-time employment.”