Posted on 07/01/2015 11:11:37 AM PDT by Nachum
By our count at the Galen Institute, more than 54 significant changes have been made to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act since it was enacted in 2010 – at least 34 that the Obama administration has made unilaterally, 17 that Congress has passed and the president has signed, and three by the Supreme Court.
Our latest count has added two more changes made by the Obama administration contrary to statutory language, and one rewrite of the law’s text from the latest U.S. Supreme Court decision. Our latest additions:
Extension of credits to people receiving employer-sponsored coverage. Section 1511 of the ACA instructs the Labor Department to issue regulations requiring businesses with more than 200 employees to automatically enroll their employees in any health benefits plan offered by the employer. Section 36B correspondingly denies credits to employees covered by an employer plan. IRS regulations contradict the statutory language and allow credits to taxpayers when they are automatically enrolled in employer minimum essential coverage. Treasury implicitly acknowledges there isno statutory authority for its regulatory change. (May 23, 2012)
Illegal use of exchange grants. CMS issued guidance saying that states operating their own exchanges can use money from federal grants to do outreach and education to increase enrollment, even though the ACA stipulates the grants are to be used only to set up exchanges. (June 8, 2015) The law doesn’t mean what it says: In King v. Burwell, the U.S. Supreme Court overruled the plain meaning of the ACA to limit tax credits to people living in states that created their own exchanges and instead allowed tax credits for insurance purchased through federally-facilitated exchanges as well. (June 25, 2015)
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Not fifty-seven?
Give it a few days.
The EXEMPT, from the White Mosque to the Supreme Courtiers
to the self-indulging Congress, could not care.
They lie every election that they will remove
whatever it is they passed ... but
have still not read. And why not?
Because the words, according the Chesire-cat Roberts,
do not even mean what they say; instead, the sole
purpose was to create two (2) classes under law.
One which pays their money as taxes, and will
soon be taken for their organs for the EXEMPT,
and those who rule and will receive Royal
Kennedy-style Health care.
The shafting of the American public, their medical industry, and our system of laws and the Constitution.
Who says crime does not pay??? Written and passed in secrecy BY OUR CONGRESS Repubs without even reading it.
Of course, the logic is irrefutable.
5.56mm
Obamacare: A “law” that can mean anything the socialist Democrats want it to. I expect it to start being applied to minor traffic infractions or defense contracts.
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