This is the Cato Daily Podcast for Monday, November 18th, 2013.

I'm Caleb Brown.

The website meant to allow people to sign up for Obamacare is, so far, a disaster.

Just as millions of Americans are getting letters telling them

that their policies are canceled, the president with dubious legal authority to

do so says once again you can keep your plan if you like it at least for another year.

Peter Suderman is senior editor at Reason magazine.

He comments.

He has offered what he's calling an administrative fix.

Let's call it an administrative tweak because I'm not sure it really fixes anything the big

announcement from the president was that he is going to allow the federal he's going to allow the federal, he's going to allow state insurance commissioners to decide

whether they want to allow health plans to continue offering plans that might have otherwise been canceled under the law.

He's basically said the federal provisions that exist that are causing these plans to be cancelled right now.

We're just not going to enforce them next year.

And as you said, it's really not clear,

or maybe I should say the, it's not that the authority isn't clear, it's

that it's very dubious. The authority that he's claiming here is what's called

transitionary authority.

Basically, the administration has some leeway

when it implements laws in terms of getting these laws into place.

And so there's real precedent saying

that the administration kind of can do more or less

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