Boehner: Why Should These Rich Wall Street Fatcats Be The Only Ones to Enjoy a Delay in ObamaCare Mandates?

If corporations and employers are spared ObamaCare's mandate, at least until after the 2014 elections, why shouldn't ordinary citizens also be spared this burden?

But I continue to be perplexed at how Obama has unilaterally -- unconstitutionally -- arrogated to himself the power to suspend the law at his whim, and how the rest of the political system seems to be going along with it.

Is this still America?

Meanwhile, the Administration has known for a while that ObamaCare could not be implemented.

As far back as March, a top IT official at the Department of Health and Human Services said the department’s current ambition for the law’s new online insurance marketplaces was that they not be “a Third-World experience.” Several provisions had already been abandoned in an effort to simplify the administration’s task and maximize the chances that the new systems would be ready to go live in October, when customers are supposed to start signing up for insurance.

In April, several consultants focusing on the new online marketplaces, known as exchanges, told National Journal that the idealized, seamless user experience initially envisioned under the Affordable Care Act was no longer possible, as the administration axed non-essential provisions that were too complex to implement in time... That focus has intensified lately, as officials announced that they would not be requiring employers to cover their workers next year or states to verify residents’ incomes before signing them up for insurance.

Finally, as you know, Obama has also unilaterally suspended the law's requirement that applicants for subsidies be checked to make sure that their income levels are what they say they are. This turned out to be too hard for President Incompetent to manage, so now 310 million people will just be on the "honor system," with tens of thousands of dollars per person to be had for the asking.

Paul Ryan sort of suspects that this Third World scheme may be more expensive than the original plans, and wants to know how much more expensive the avalanche of fraud will end up costing us.

posted by Ace at 03:35 PM

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