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Friday, November 15, 2013

Obama Allows Illegal Health Policies, Quickly Pivots to Economy

by Wayne Crews on November 14, 2013

The furor over the Healthcare.gov website that is merely supposed to automate the process of determining if one is eligible or not for a federal health care subsidy and select a policy led President Obama today to unilaterally declare that all those millions whose policies health policies have been cancelled can continue them.  The problem is that under his own Obamacare law, those plans are strictly illegal…… Obama is president, not dictator…….Obama will focus on what government can “do,” here are some things it can “undo” instead since regulation is a hidden tax costing half the amount of the fiscal budget itself:

Existing Regulations: Implement a bipartisan regulatory reduction commission to eliminate rules; hold hearings and streamline the remainder

New Regulations: Disclose them in an annual regulatory report card mirroring the federal budget; experiment with regulatory budgeting (of costs, not benefits); require expedited congressional approval of regulations before they are binding; employ sunset dates at which time Congress would need to re-approve

Ultimately we must limit the power of government to coerce, and recognize that Congress cannot do anything it wants; that’s how we wound up with Obamacare in the first place, and with a stressed manufacturing sector, the issues of the day. We, as voters, don’t possess such power to compel our fellow citizens, and cannot delegate it to “representatives.”….…To Read More….

 

 

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