Wednesday, March 12, 2014

Another Delay?: "ObamaCare's Secret Mandate Exemption"

"ObamaCare's implementers continue to roam the battlefield and shoot their own wounded, and the latest casualty is the core of the Affordable Care Act—the individual mandate. To wit, last week the Administration quietly excused millions of people from the requirement to purchase health insurance or else pay a tax penalty."

"This latest political reconstruction has received zero media notice, and the Health and Human Services Department didn't think the details were worth discussing in a conference call, press materials or fact sheet. Instead, the mandate suspension was buried in an unrelated rule that was meant to preserve some health plans that don't comply with ObamaCare benefit and redistribution mandates. Our sources only noticed the change this week." READ MORE
 
I don't know what to say about the ObamaCare delays anymore. Other than repeat Hillary Clinton's pearl of wisdom; At this point, what difference does it make?

One more law re-write, by a constitutionally equivocal branch, is not going to kill anybody, is it?

What's one more for the road?
 

11 comments:

Lem the artificially intelligent said...

What appears to have happened with ObamaCare is that One political party, on it's own, ceded to another branch it's own constituional perrogatives of writing law. It voted to cede it's Crimea to Obama. To make him a super legislator. A cudeta.

Or at least thats how it would be presented in the press had the wrong party done it.

deborah said...

Are there any Republicans thinking of another run at the Supreme Court?

Shouting Thomas said...

A year ago, demands for relief from the failed policies of Obamacare would have been denounced a racist obstructionism.

Mark Steyn warned that giving the government the power to control healthcare changed essentially the relationship between government and citizens.

Apparently, he was correct.

Lem the artificially intelligent said...

I put Roberts up because he advanced it when it came by him. Maybe one could argue that he did not know Obama would use the law like a personal ledger, but, he advanced it when it came by him.

Lem the artificially intelligent said...

Or did Roberts not read it?

Leland said...

What the Obama Administration has done is create an Executive Veto of any law by simply refusing to enforce it. This was done by suggesting provisions in the oath of office only suggest a loyalty to the Constitution and not so much to statute law. The Administration has some cover with Obamacare, in which Congress did cede its legislative power to the Executive Branch by allowing the latter to write regulations. However enforcement dates were written into the law by Congress. Obama's administration can't just amend the Congressionally written portions, but they can through regulations and internal rules refuse to enforce them.

deborah said...

Lem:
"Maybe one could argue that he did not know Obama would use the law like a personal ledger, but, he advanced it when it came by him."

I don't know if Roberts was being paternal (father knows best toward the citizenry), or if he really wanted to give Americans a wake-up call to start paying attention to what Congress does.

bagoh20 said...

Obama is an irresponsible, radical, politically motivated, selfish, teabagging racist...

at least according to what Democrats were saying a few months ago about doing this stuff. He just hates the ACA because he hates the idea of a Black President, and will try to bring himself down at all costs. No matter how hard he tries, he can't get the Press to appreciate his diligent attempts at self-parody and destruction. They just won't cooperate.

bagoh20 said...

What Roberts failed to do was very simple. He just didn't do his job. All that college and study just to come up with a rather lame excuse for looking the other way when it was his job to stop such overreach. It's really his primary responsibility. Basically like a fireman walking away as the fire starts, and pretending it's not his job.

Unknown said...

The dems had to push it through on party line vote in the dead of night, and now that it's a train wreck, they are dismantling to save their own skins. And once again the state run media hacks are in protection mode.

Fr Martin Fox said...

Great clip of Sinatra; I hadn't seen that.

That's a song he sang throughout his career; and to my mind, as well as he sang it there, he sang it far, far better -- with more personal pain -- in later years.

Oh -- do you mind if I go off-topic?

Sorry about that.