About a year purchase flovent The National Retail Federation, a retail industry trade group, also weighed in, calling the delay a "wise move" and adding that the extra year "will provide employers and businesses more time to update their health care coverage without threat of arbitrary punishment." The American Benefits Council, a private employee benefits advocacy organization that counts many of America's largest corporations as members, said the delay "provides vital breathing room to implement the law in a more thoughtful and administrable way,"