Barack Hussein Obama
Rogue Obama Is Illegally Suspending Parts Of The Obamacare Law
How it is possible that Mr. Obama is able to simply wave his hand and decree certain aspects of that law to suddenly be suspended or not enforced? The president has no power to do that. Dictators can do that, tyrants can do that, but in a democratic republic this is not only not supposed to happen, it is illegal.
There is a huge Obamacare story that almost no one is talking about. When Obamacare passed as the law of the land, it became just that – the law. Like it or not, it was voted on by the Senate and the House, and it passed as a law like any other law we have. So how it is possible, then, that Mr. Obama is able to simply wave his hand and decree certain aspects of that law to suddenly be suspended or not enforced? The president has no power to do that. Dictators can do that, tyrants can do that, but in a democratic republic this is not only not supposed to happen, it is illegal.
Democrats know this, Republicans know this, so ask yourself this. Why, if everyone knows how the law is supposed to work, and everyone is sworn to uphold the law, is no one on either side of the aisle bringing charges against Mr. Obama for gross violations against the United States Constitution in general, and for breaking the Obamacare law in particular.
Why is no one stopping him? That’s the real story no one is talking about.
It’s bad enough that we have a Marxist renegade occupying the president’s chair at 1600, but the fact that no one in either Congress, the Senate or the Justice Department will do anything to bring him to account for his crimes against our government should be truly frightening to you. Who, if anyone, is in charge?
From WSJ: It seems Nancy Pelosi was wrong when she said “we have to pass” ObamaCare to “find out what’s in it.” No one may ever know because the White House keeps treating the Affordable Care Act’s text as a mere suggestion subject to day-to-day revision. Its latest political retrofit is the most brazen: President Obama is partly suspending the individual mandate.
The White House argued at the Supreme Court that the insurance-purchase mandate was not only constitutional but essential to the law’s success, while refusing Republican demands to delay or repeal it. But late on Thursday, with only four days to go before the December enrollment deadline, the Health and Human Services Department decreed that millions of Americans are suddenly exempt.
Individuals whose health plans were canceled will now automatically qualify for a “hardship exemption” from the mandate. If they can’t or don’t sign up for a new plan, they don’t have to pay the tax. They can also get a special category of ObamaCare insurance designed for people under age 30.
So merry Christmas. If ObamaCare’s benefit and income redistribution requirements made your old, cheaper, better health plan illegal, you now have the option of going without coverage without the government taking your money as punishment. You can also claim the tautological consolation of an ObamaCare hardship exemption due to ObamaCare itself.
The only political explanation for relaxing enforcement of the individual mandate—even at the risk of destabilizing ObamaCare in the long term—is that the White House is panicked that the whole entitlement is endangered. The insurance terminations and rollout fiasco could leave more people uninsured in 2014 than in 2013. ObamaCare’s unpopularity with the public could cost Democrats the Senate in 2014, and a GOP Congress in 2015 could compel the White House to reopen the law and make major changes.
Republicans ought to prepare for that eventuality with insurance reforms beyond the “repeal” slogan, but they can also take some vindication in Thursday’s reversal. Mr. Obama’s actions are as damning about ObamaCare as anything Senator Ted Cruz has said, and they implicitly confirm that the law is quarter-baked and harmful. Mr. Obama is doing through executive fiat what Republicans shut down the government to get him to do.
The President declared at his Friday press conference that the exemptions “don’t go to the core of the law,” but in fact they belong to his larger pattern of suspending the law on his own administrative whim. Earlier this month he ordered insurers to backdate policies to compensate for the federal exchange meltdown, and before that HHS declared that it would not enforce for a year the mandates responsible for policy cancellations. Mr. Obama’s team has also by fiat abandoned the small-business exchanges, delayed the employer mandate and scaled back income verification.
“The basic structure of that law is working, despite all the problems,” Mr. Obama added. His make-it-up-as-he-goes improvisation will continue, because the law is failing. source – WSJ
