cnbc's jon harwood has an update on the story that broke about an hour ago. >> mandy, we know that the obama administration has its hands full 24/7 trying to get the healthcare.gov website where individuals -- individual consumers in 34 states can pick out health care plans. that is such a consuming task that they've given up trying to get the on-line marketplace for small businesses up and running by the end of the month. initially, they said that was going to be done by the end of november. now they've said nop. it's going to be put off for another year. they're focused op the consumer website. couple things to note. first of all they say the small businesses in those 34 states without a state exchange will be able to go on-line and compare plans and they will be able to enroll in health care but not on-line. they're asking them to go to their insurance broker, insurance agent, directly to the companies and do it that way. the on-line function will be there next year. the other thing to point out, mandy, those small businesses are not subject to a mandate. if they have fewer than 50