Posted on 11/14/2013 11:55:06 AM PST by edwinland
WASHINGTON — The Affordable Care Act is the biggest new health care program in decades, but the Obama administration has ruled that neither the federal insurance exchange nor the federal subsidies paid to insurance companies on behalf of low-income people are “federal health care programs.”
The surprise decision, disclosed last week, exempts subsidized health insurance from a law that bans rebates, kickbacks, bribes and certain other financial arrangements in federal health programs, stripping law enforcement of a powerful tool used to fight fraud in other health care programs, like Medicare.
The main purpose of the anti-kickback law, as described by federal courts in scores of Medicare cases, is to protect patients and taxpayers against the undue influence of money on medical decisions.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
"When I use a word," Humpty Dumpty said, in a rather scornful tone, "it means just what I choose it to mean - neither more nor less." "The question is," said Alice, "whether you can make words mean so many different things." "The question is," said Humpty Dumpty, "which is to be master - that's all."
The NY Times breaking THIS story tells me one thing.
They’ve concluded that unless Obamacare is repealed, it is going to send their precious Democrat Party to the electoral sidelines for a long, LOOOOOONG time.
Hence they are piling on in an attempt to force King Barry the Stubborn to acquiesce.
“If you like your.......you can keep it, period, end of story, move on,....”
I never realized the WH had the authority to make such decisions - thought it had to be written into the law passed by Congress.
So now they’re seeing how he likes to operate like a king. Well good for them. Of course we all know, if this weren’t hurting the Marxists’ chances in 2014, it would be swept under the rug like everything else about Barry has been.
You shouldn’t be able to call an orange a watermellon IMO.
That sounds like a lawsuit waiting to happen. Does the law give barry the authority to determine what’s a health care program and what’s not? And even if it does, has such authority been excercised consistently.
Now we know why the government is running it :
"exempts subsidized health insurance from a law that bans rebates, kickbacks, bribes and certain other financial arrangements in federal health programs,
stripping law enforcement of a powerful tool used to fight fraud in other health care programs,.."
If he didn't screw it up so badly enough the first time
Now he wants another chance !!
He lied ,Harry lied , and Nancy lied !
and now they want a "DO OVER "
I never realized the WH had the authority to make such decisions - thought it had to be written into the law passed by Congress.
DICKtators don’t need no stinkin Congress!
... you can keep getting the advice on defrauding the government from your Navigator."
Obama is all three branches of government...
And he controls physical laws as well, (stopping the rising of the seas).
Like Porkulus, Obamacare rapes the US taxpayer while rewarding criminals and administration cronies.
I don’t think it has the authority at all, maybe not even for any of the wavers.
The law is illegal and unconstitutional. Enforcing it is breaking the law.
The administration does not have the right to grant waivers from any law, even from illegal, invalid laws. It does not have to right to invalidate any part of the law.
It’s a TAX. Since when can you WAIVE taxes?
They just deem things to be whatever they want them to be. There is no reality. There is only the Party.
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