The Obama administration’s move to delay until 2015 a requirement that employers offer health insurance or else face stiff penalties is yet another indication that the embattled law is a failure and  should be repealed, Republicans and conservatives said on Tuesday.

“The president’s healthcare law is already raising costs and costing  jobs,” House Speaker John Boehner said. “This announcement means  even the Obama administration knows the ‘train wreck’ will only get worse.

“I hope the administration recognizes the need to release American families from the mandates of this law as well,” the Ohio Republican  said. “This is a clear acknowledgment that the law is unworkable,  and it underscores the need to repeal the law and replace it with  effective, patient-centered reforms.”

“Obamacare costs too much and it isn’t working the way the administration promised,” said Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky. “The White House seems to slowly be admitting  what Americans already know: Obamacare needs to be repealed and  replaced with common-sense reforms that actually lowers costs for Americans.”

And Barney Keller, spokesman for the Club for Growth, called the delay “a transparently political ploy to help the Democrats who voted for it avoid the consequences at the ballot box in 2014. This just helps make the case that Obamacare should be completely  repealed — period, exclamation point.”

The IRS, which is charged with implementing Obamacare, remains under fire for widespread mismanagement and for the targeting of tea party, conservative, and religious groups in evaluating their applications for tax-exempt status.

And the American Action Forum, a Washington advocacy group, said that Obamacare had so far cost a total of $30.8 billion and 111.4  million hours for completing paperwork alone.

The group said 55,742 employees — working 2,000 hours per year — would be needed to process all the red tape associated with  Obamacare.

While the employer mandate was delayed with Tuesday’s announcement,  the individual mandate — which requires individuals to obtain health  insurance — presumably remains on schedule for 2014.