The appropriations bill for 2011 - what funds the Government through September 2011 - is passed in September/October of this year. Before the GOP could take over. The budget for Obamacare for the next 16 months is fully under the control of the Democrats, and is all that’s needed.
Obamacare is really starting to roll by the end of 2011, which would be when the first GOP appropriations bills would pass. And remember, Obamacare spends essentially zero on care until 2013, but it has massive restructuring of regulations and business in anticipation of the payout starting in 2013. The Sec HHS is the one who sets these rules, and uses existing funds to do so. Meaning that business must start meeting new laws, but the Government doesn’t have to spend any dollars yet.
It’s a brilliant - if sadistic - plan to force Obamacare regardless of what happens in November. All the required spending will be done by September 2011 before a GOP majority gets into the Congress, and regulations are completely set and operating literally 3 weeks before a new President could be sworn in.
Go read the dates chosen in the bill, and then ask yourself what’s so important about those specifically chosen dates. They were chosen to guarantee that the next Congress can do nothing about the implementation of the plan.
No, the only way to scale back Obamacare is to get a full bill through the White House. And the soonest that can happen is 3 weeks after the entire plan - including the payouts of benefits, the restructuring of all plans, the closing/consolidating of insurance agencies - starts running.
All by design, to make a reversal as painful if not more painful than the original health care bill implementation.
There is another way to stop this, before we get too deep. SCOTUS.
If a way could be found to make the bill, or the way it was foisted upon us by bribery to be unconstitutional, a 5-4 decision could cause RAT heads to explode everywhere.....
.....And the average citizen to breath a sigh of relief (at the expense of more CO2 in the atmosphere)!
I'm sure all the RAT Judges and Lawyers in the court system will drag the process out in an effort to prevent such an outcome until it is too late. That in itself would be illegal in my opinion because the delay would be motivated within the "impartial" court system to affect the political outcome. But I will never hold my breath that it will ever be prosecuted.