Change has come…. Ruling by executive fiat. ============ 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... Read more
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What to Do When ObamaCare Unravels
December 25 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Health, ObamaCareShort on details – maybe not the author’s objective. But worth the read. ============= By John H. Cochrane Dec. 25, 2013 3:51 p.m. ET The unraveling of the Affordable Care Act presents a historic opportunity for change. Its proponents call it “settled law,” but as Prohibition taught us, not even a constitutional amendment is settled law—if it is dysfunctional enough, and if... Read more
National Lampoon’s ObamaCare Vacation
December 20 | Posted by mrossol | ObamaCareWhen you’ve never done anything but organize communities, this is what you get. ============ President Obama has responded to the ObamaCare debacle by bringing in Beltway liberal mastermind John Podesta as a senior West Wing hand, and he promptly announced his arrival by likening House Republicans to “a cult worthy of Jonestown” in an interview with Politico. The states running their... Read more
ObamaCare’s Troubles Are Only Beginning
December 16 | Posted by mrossol | ObamaCareOnly beginning. Will you be able to keep your HSA? Will it be pre-tax? Better start asking some questions. ============ By Michael J. Boskin – Dec. 15, 2013 6:24 p.m. ET The White House is claiming that the Healthcare.gov website is mostly fixed, that the millions of Americans whose health plans were canceled thanks to government rules may be able to keep them... Read more
ObamaCare Questions Nobody Asked
November 20 | Posted by mrossol | ObamaCareIs it too late to ask them? ====== If we had to do it all over again . . . there would have been a whole lot more questions that were asked,” President Obama told NBC last week. In this now-famous TV interview, Mr. Obama was referring to his health-care rollout, but there are plenty of other questions somebody should have asked. Here... Read more
The President’s ObamaCare Backpedal
November 20 | Posted by mrossol | ObamaCareIs there panic in the air? ==== Succumbing to the growing panic over his health law, the president on Thursday moved to throw his party a political lifeline. As rescue apparatuses go, it is likely to do more harm than good. Mr. Obama took to the podium in the White House briefing room to explain that yes, some Americans may indeed now keep... Read more
