We’ve posted the video of my
conversation with Megyn Kelly last night on The
Kelly File at Fox News. We discussed the
Obama administration brief that I mentioned in my last Obamacare column: the
brief filed in federal court by Eric Holder’s Justice Department, on behalf of
Kathleen Sebelius’s Department of Health and Human Services, in which the
administration admits “that a majority of group health plans will have lost
their grandfather status by the end of 2013.”
Patrick, your post on
the new PR guy at the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) reminds
me of this excellent piece by Avik Roy,
which I discuss in my Obamacare column today. It was a
CMS spokesman — Gary Cohen, director of something called the CMS Center for
Consumer Information and Insurance Oversight — who advised state insurance
commissioners on the nitty-gritty of the “fix” Obama proclaimed last Thursday.
As Avik recounts, No sooner had the president done his schtick on how it’s just
the teeny-tiny individual health-insurance market that’s been affected by his lie
inaccurate promise about being able to keep your insurance when Mr. Cohen sent
out a letter to state insurance commissioners that mentioned the inconvenient
fact that people who get their insurance from the employer market have started
losing their coverage, too.
It’s a 100 percent lie, according to the White
House’s own figures.
Last
Thursday, President Obama purported to undo the “Affordable” Care Act (ACA)
mandates that he and congressional Democrats quite intentionally designed to
force Americans off their health-insurance policies . . . notwithstanding the
president’s promise, repeated over and over again since 2009, that Americans
would be able to keep their health-insurance policies. In my weekend column, I argued that Obama’s
latest unilateral diktat is lawless and transparently political. With each
passing day, however, what becomes more breathtaking is the depth of
systematic, calculated lying that went into the extensive — the criminal — Obamacare fraud.
Insurance companies would be insane to offer plans that
failed to comply with the ACA.
Barack Obama could not have
been more unequivocal. The telecommunications companies had to be punished for
violating the letter of federal law. He didn’t want to hear about how President
Bush told them it was okay.
One
laughs now remembering how Obama’s base, the anti-anti-terrorist Left and its
lawyer legions, used to call Bush the “imperial president” and thunder for his
impeachment. Bush couldn’t hold a candle to our incumbent Caligula. He had no
idea, for example, that presidents can just “waive” inconvenient parts of
congressional statutes, like FISA…….Oh
no you don’t, Obama and his base shrieked……
Then-senator Barack Obama, himself a hard Leftist and an opportunist (yes,
that’s redundant), realized that captivating the party’s Marxist wing — the
anti-business, blame-America-first activists — was vital to capturing the
nomination…….The purpose here is not to prove, yet again, that Obama is a
fraud, which would be like proving that Detroit may be a tad mismanaged.
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