Why is this even Obama’s slightest prerogative? He is not a king, dammit.
Ok, what a dumbass, next year it starts all over again x10.
Obama thinks that Article II is the only section of the Constitution.
-PJ
the only branch that can’t or won’t legislate in this post-constitutional gov’t is the legislature.
Allow or require? Why would the insurance companies reinstate the canceled plans? In fact, I’m not sure how they would do it.
And the 5 million who have already lost their plans?
HAIL OBAMA...ALL POWERFUL!!!
THIS IS TYRANNY!!
That is nice of him. We Have now officially became a Banana Republic. The next step is the abolition of Congress because since the people now have Obama as their king, Congress serves no useful purpose and the money allocated to it can now be applied the reducing the National Debt or toward supporting the people’s king in the manner he is used to.
Obama, Criminal in Charge.
Change laws whenever he wants.
Ignore laws whenever he wants.
Congress passes a law and the President signs it into law.
The Great Dictator then pronounces the law delayed, modified, changed, and in general ignored.
None of the Republican leadership wonders whether this is a Presidential Power.
If it is, could he please delay my due date for my income taxes?
Obama is half an hour late for his press conference. He’s probably in the bathroom waiting for the Imodium to kick in...
Makes my stomach retch.
.... The Prez with a fez is almost a half hour late .... bet he is waiting for Rush to start his show in order to have it pre-empted.
This guy looks like he just got beaten...
Under what authority does the President (ANY President) have to simply “modify” laws which were passed by Congress? I mean, without having to go BACK to Congress to get these changes codified into an actual LAW?
I mean, as written, these insurance companies can NOT just make wholesale changes because a President said, “Okay, just do it!” They could be held liable, REGARDLESS of what the President said!
The first person who keeps his old plan, then has some medical condition which is NOT covered under the old plan, but WOULD BE covered under an Obamacare plan, has a very STRONG legal leg with which to beat the insurance company to death!
And when the insurance companies say, “The President said it was okay.” The courts are going to FORCE the insurance companies to pay and will probably award damages, because the LAW says they MUST comply!
If I was the insurance companies, I would say, “NO EFFING WAY are we going to operate on the word of a KNOWN LIAR!” Because it will be THEIR asses that pay, not The Won!
He should know that not even the Emperor can unring a bell.
President Obama will allow insurance companies to continue offering individual health plans....
From where does he get this power?
Ted Cruz was RIGHT.