Posted on 10/01/2013 9:02:56 PM PDT by Whenifhow
Betsy McCaughey made a great point tonight in an interview with Mark Levin, noting that the Affordable Care Act that was passed by Congress, signed by Obama and upheld by the Supreme Court is not the same law that Obama is currently imposing on the American people. McCaughey says that with all the changes Obama has made to ACA, it is now nothing more than a ‘distorted little piece of the Affordable Care Act’ and says it doesn’t have the status of law because it’s not what they passed:
MCCAUGHEY: I have the Obama health law right here in front of me and I think about how different what the president’s health reform today is from that law. I hear the Democrats say all the time ‘well it was passed by Congress, it was signed by the president and it was vetted by the Supreme Court.’ But what the president is imposing on us today is not the Affordable Care Act.
LEVIN: Stop! Stop! That is a very important point. Wait a minute, Congress passed, the president signed, the Supreme Court upheld…and your point is since then Obama has changed the law and nobody and nothing has passed on that. Brilliant!
MCCAUGHEY: Oh yes exactly. He has stripped the employer mandate, income verification, caps on out of pocket expenses, over half the statutory deadlines in the law. So now he’s had this very distorted little piece of the Affordable Care Act and he’s tacked new things onto it, 1472 waivers. And how about this new subsidy for members of Congress that he weaseled through without congressional approval. All of this means that this reform doesn’t have the status of law.
The following is a quote from the article link from post 8.
‘President Obama would delay the damage of his health care scheme until after the 2014 congressional elections,’ said the group’s president, Tom Fitton. ‘But politics do not trump the Constitution or the rule of law. And to paraphrase Ulysses S. Grant, the best way to ensure the repeal of a bad law is to enforce it vigorously.’
My take is that we must enforce the law vigorously so that people will see just how bad it is - in particular those congress critters should be included in the law. If they are not subject to the law they will not find the courage to change it.
1472 waivers!
Another fair point.
Obie has been playing timeline games from day one.
Like the regulation that allowed congressional employees to be exempt from the law because the law said that "official" employees were covered by the law, but there was no definition of an official employee.
Ted Cruz stirred the pot.
The good news I’m seeing today is that many of the low-information voters (a ton of whom actually thought this was going to be FREE health care!) are boiling mad now that they finally see just exactly what Obamacare is!
An he is screaming to the people to wake up!
#WheresMYWaiver DC?
Waaaaah.
Oh, we are awake. We told the GOPE that we won’t vote for a RINO. I was disappointed that Romney didn’t win but not that disappointed. It really didn’t matter.
I realize he has made a lot of changes...but what was the legal basis? There is a provision that the HHS, Sebelious for now, can make lots of recommendations/decisions at their whim. There’s also a panel of 16 or so people that the executive puts in place who also oversee this whole mess.
Maybe that’s what some of these were?
I believe the thing about not requiring companies to provide insurance for part time workers was in the original bill. I’m assuming this was to cause what is happening in our work force today, thus hastening the day for single payer health coverage.
I think we would have had a lot more leverage with him in place.
But we stayed home because we don’t like this sort of bedfellow.
I said elect him and hold his feet to the fire.
The problem is only individual citizens have the nerve to refuse to buy in.
What it is is null and void, in my estimation. Even executive orders have form, and are not binding on future presidents. If this 'Act' is not tossed into the garbage, then it is the end of our republic. They will be able to pass anything, then morph it, arbitrarily into anything else.
Exactly! They are not following laws and this is the prime example and it is worth fighting for the rule of law.
Let’s get this straight. The Democrats passed a law.
Nobody but Democrats voted for the law.
The Democrat President altered the law multiple times since it was passed/approved by the Democrat Senate, and was vetted by the Supreme Court, and found constitutional to the point the law is now nothing what it was when the Democrats passed the bill, the Supreme Court vetted the bill, and the Democrat President signed the bill into law.
The Democrat approved Healthcare reform hasn’t even gone into effect, and it’s not the same law that was signed into law by the Democrats.
What in the Hell are the Republicans waiting for? This is a gift.
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September 23, 2013Obamacare Challenge
Judicial Watch is considering litigation challenging President Obama’s rewriting of Obamacare. Specifically, President Obama has unilaterally rewritten the law to delay the “employer mandate,” which was scheduled to go in effect on January 1, 2014, for at least a year. At the same time, he did not rewrite the law to delay the “individual mandate,”…
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Laws are for the little people.
and was vetted by the Supreme Court, and found constitutional to the point the law is now nothing what it was when the Democrats passed the bill
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The Supreme Court Change the bill as well. Article and video below.
Sen. Mike Lee: Supreme Court ObamaCare Ruling a “Lawless Act”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3071402/posts
47 Minutes
Blowing a Hole a Mile Wide in the Enumerated Powers Doctrine
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6fvMf65Fv8
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