Posted on 07/08/2013 1:09:30 PM PDT by neverdem
I hope you will forgive me for assuming the Obama administration was merely bumping their normal Friday news dump forward to before the July 4th holiday, with their announcement that they would effectively delay the employer mandate’s implementation for a year. This was not the case – instead, the much bigger news, and far more devastating to any remaining claims that Obamacare is being properly implemented, was buried on Friday: the news that the most significant entitlement increase since the Great Society will be operating on the honor system.
Sarah Kliff and Sandhya Somashekhar report: “The Obama administration announced Friday that it would significantly scale back the health law’s requirements that new insurance marketplaces verify consumers’ income and health insurance status. Instead, the federal government will rely more heavily on consumers’ self-reported information until 2015, when it plans to have stronger verification systems in place… After encountering “legislative and operational barriers,” the federal government will not require the District and the 16 states that are running their own marketplaces to verify a consumer’s statement that they do not receive health insurance from their employer… The federal government will, however, conduct an audit for the states where it is managing the new insurance Web portal. The rule also scaled back states’ responsibilities to double-check the income levels that consumers report, which determine any tax subsidy they receive.” Note the fun quote from Timothy Jost about how this is all totally cool.
Subsidize first, ask questions later. “We have concluded that the…proposed rule is not feasible for implementation for the first year of operations,” say the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. “The exchange may accept the applicant’s attestation regarding enrollment in an eligible employer-sponsored plan…without further verification, instead of following the procedure in §155.320(d)(3)(iii).” And it’s not just there. The feds...
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Come on, everybody, PUSH!
The problem is that if it’s not killed completely and in a timely fashion its collapse could bring to its knees when,until very recently,was the finest health care system in the world,far better than Canada’s,Britain’s or any other country’s system.
ObamaCare on the Brink
Come on, everybody, PUSH!
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The quote should be “House of Representatives on the Brink”. This all about Election 2014. It’s a mistake to read anything more into it.
The problem is that if it’s not killed completely and in a timely fashion its collapse could bring to its knees what,until very recently,was the finest health care system in the world,far better than Canada’s,Britain’s or any other country’s system.
Nothing is verifiable. Illegal aliens, criminals, dead-beat dads, wealthy liberals, will all get subsidized health insurance from the exchange.....no questions asked.
This what you get when you entrust the redesign of one sixth of the economy to a gang of neoMarxist crooks and con artists.
Is this the Obamanation Train Wreck at the other end of the tunnel, or just the back-up lights on the Obama’care’ Express?
Hard to tell, as all this recent Obama’care’ regulation changes is just a diversionary smokescreen to the Benghazi Massacre, IRS Terror Program, NSA Gestapo, Muzzle Media Police, and other singular accomplishments of the pure evil that has become known as Obamanation.
I think we've already reached the angle of repose.
So nobody will be checking that people buying through the exchanges are citizens?
ping
“The Obama administration announced Friday that it would significantly scale back the health law’s requirements...”
Why do we even have a legislative branch of government?
(Heck, why did the founders bother to convene in Philadelphia for that long hot summer?)
IF Obmama is just going to ignore parts of laws he doesn’t like, Maybe the House should just order that we put off Obamacare in its entirety for 20 or so years.
Push a stake through its heart.
I think Bush jr. should just ingore the law that ended his term and order the supreme court to give him an injuction to stop implementig Obamacare.
It will die a trillion deaths.
I doubt that Obama has the authority to make this change in the law without Congress. If he RINO leadership in the House would grow a pair they should just cut all funding implementing Obamacare instead of passing symbolic repeal bills that go nowhere.
I had a vague memory of Pelosi saying once the bill (ObamaCare) was passed, everyone would LOVE LOVE LOVE it.
But couldn’t find the quote nor the source.
EXCERPT ‘It captures the spirit of our Founders, the spirit they wrote in the Declaration of Independence: life, liberty,and pursuit of happiness,” said Nancy Pelosi. But the “it” she was celebrating wasn’t the country’s 237th birthday or the 150th anniversary of the Union’s bloody victory at Gettysburg.
No, the former speaker of the House was burbling with joy over the first anniversary of the Supreme Court’s stunning decision justifying ObamaCare as a “tax” — a law so unpopular that the Obama administration itself just quietly announced the delay of a key part for a full year. Which kicks the can past next year’s congressional elections, a clear dodge aimed at avoiding a bloodbath at the ballot box.
But Pelosi’s still cooing: “So we’ve had Social Security, Medicare and now health independence, and that’s something our members will take home to celebrate over this Independence Day,” she said.
Now, everyone can recall the stirring preamble to the Declaration of Independence: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights...”......what comes next is the bill of particulars against King George III that justified the colonial rebellion. And it’s helpful to recall how we got here — and what we must always be on guard against.
“He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people and eat out their substance,” reads one of Jefferson’s indictments against the king. ....those words nicely cover big government, the intrusive leviathan state and its army of unelected regulators and unaccountable bureaucrats who really run the country. ---SNIP---
REST HERE http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/celebrating_liberty_as_it_slips_gQcsO4RAuPLgxXhoiIKh4L
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