Obamacare´s Amazing Wayback Clause

American Spectator ^ | 3/23/2015 | David Catron

[rootin tootin]

Obamacare’s boosters have made so many implausible assertions about its supposed successes that it’s difficult to single out one as the most preposterous. But any list of their most comical claims would have to include those involving the law’s “wayback clause.” Haven’t heard of that one? Well, like the provision authorizing the IRS to issue subsidies via federal exchanges, it’s absent from PPACA’s text. Nonetheless, its efficacy is routinely touted by Obamacare’s proponents as proof that “reform” works.

The most celebrated effect of this amazing provision is its retroactive reduction of medical inflation during the years preceding the law’s implementation. Obamacare was passed in 2010. However, except for a few minor provisions, it didn't go into effect until 2014. Yet the law’s wayback clause is such a powerful cost control tool that it has been able to traverse the time-space continuum and slow the rate of health care inflation, as the President himself has phrased it, “every single year since the law passed.”

[themidnightskulker]

Awesome!!! I expect my refund ckeck for overpayment to be in the mail.

[SunkenCiv]

Obamacare was passed in 2010. However, except for a few minor provisions, it didn't go into effect until 2014. Yet the law's wayback clause is such a powerful cost control tool that it has been able to traverse the time-space continuum and slow the rate of health care inflation, as the President himself has phrased it, "every single year since the law passed."

[Timocrat]

as the President himself has phrased it, “every single year since the law passed.”

There's always the possibility he engaged in a little terminological inexactitude.

[Ray76]

Nah, it’s just another lie.