Monday, August 19, 2013
How President Obama is flouting Obamacare More reasons to delay and rewrite this ill-conceived law
◼ Democrats strong-armed Obamacare into law three years ago. Now they´re busy flouting it. - Chicago Tribune Editorial
The mandate that employers provide insurance next year or pay a penalty, as the law requires? Delayed for at least a year. The law´s dictate that people applying for federal subsidies to buy insurance provide proof that they´re eligible for the government aid? Scaled back. Sharp limits on Americans´ out-of-pocket costs for health care? Suspended for a year.
Providing members of Congress and more than 10,000 staff members with federal health care subsidies that the law does not allow? Done, via a deal brokered by President Barack Obama.
And on and on....
Bottom line: Let's delay and rewrite this ill-conceived law. Congress need not start from scratch. Lawmakers can build on what all of us have learned from three years of painful trial and error. Three years of attempting, but failing, to make this clumsy monstrosity work for the American people.
◼ OBAMA'S HOMETOWN PAPER: SCRAP OBAMACARE - Larry O'Connor/Breitbart
The Chicago Tribune has come out in favor of delaying and re-writing Obamacare, a program they refer to as a "monstrosity."
Bottom line: Let's delay and rewrite this ill-conceived law. Congress need not start from scratch. Lawmakers can build on what all of us have learned from three years of painful trial and error. Three years of attempting, but failing, to make this clumsy monstrosity work for the American people.
The newspaper located in President Obama's hometown of Chicago executes a blistering analysis of the law and how President Obama and Democrats in Congress are attempting to flout it...