NetRight Daily, December 16, 2013
By Bill Wilson
Barack Obama is in a box: He repeatedly
promised “if you like your health care plan, you can keep your
health care plan,” but his socialized medicine monstrosity has cost millions of
people their coverage. It’s also become painfully clear Obama knew this was going to happen as early as March 2010 — yet kept
regurgitating his false promise.
Obamacare also has a bigger problem: As written, the law’s key mechanism for
issuing subsidies to state exchanges is legally enforceable in only one third
of the country — meaning the only way to pay for its nationwide dependency
expansion is new deficit spending. This would clearly violate another oft-repeated Obama
promise: That his law would not “add one dime” to the federal deficit (well,
beyond the $6.2 trillion identified in this 2013 GAO
report).
What’s an administration to do, right?
That’s easy: Change the law.
“As we implement this law, we have and will continue to make changes as
needed,” senior administration official Valerie Jarrett wrote this
summer.
And so Obama has shredded the Constitution in favor of the “Easy
Button,” arbitrarily remaking entire sections of the health care law that deal
with its employer mandate, its deductible and co-payment limits, its coverage
requirements and — more disturbingly — its power to subsidize health insurance
in more than thirty states.
Consider this: Obamacare itself contains 906 pages and approximately
380,000 words. But the regulations promulgated in support of the law total
10,535 pages and approximately 11,588,500 words.
U.S. Sen. Rand Paul (R-Kentucky) hit the nail on the head earlier this
year in responding to this systematic obliteration of our nation’s
constitutionally prescribed separation of powers.
“The president doesn’t get to write legislation, and its illegal and
unconstitutional for him to try and change legislation by himself,” Paul told Fox News.
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