Obamacare–the most illegally changed law in history. The premise of the law was to provide lower cost health care to all, even free to some. The 26-million citizens touted to not have any health insurance for whatever reason were supposed to be able to get affordable health care because of the law.
Negotiations on what the bill would include (and cost) were held in private sessions, not open to public viewing or scrutiny. In the end, not a single Republican voted for the law. Not one. But having the majority in both houses of Congress, they were able to pass the law “so that we could see what was in it.”
It seems there was a lot that Congress and the president didn’t like. As of November 2013, there have been 27 changes to the law.
They exempted themselves and their staff from being subject to the law. I guess it is not as good as they make it out to be if they want no part of it. Instead, they get to keep their “Cadillac plans”–that you and I subsidize, of course. They changed the mandatory enrollment date–the first one. The system was not ready to accept enrollees, plus there just wasn’t anybody in a hurry to sign up.
There was language in the law that stated specific changes could NOT be made. Like the employer mandate. This was a hard, iron-clad rule. Until it was changed–in direct contravention to the law. There was a rule about having to prove one’s income since the applicant got higher subsidies the lower their income was. They took this out so that the government took the applicant at his word what his income was. Think anybody gamed the system?
I thought this was supposed to be the perfect health care system, providing for all? Instead, it was just a power play–a grab by the government to take over a sixth of our economy so they could tax it to have a cash cow to pay for every other social program they can dream up.
Statistics from the other day revealed that of the millions who did not have insurance before the law, 90% of them still do not. They have not bothered to sign up. Many of the uninsured are also not technically savvy and do not even know what all they law could do for them. Of the 10% who have signed up, half of them have not paid their premiums. So, we gone through all of this shit for 5% of the target audience. A 2-3 trillion dollar expense that the middle class will pay for– for what, a million people?
And now, now that the mid-term elections are on the horizon, Obama has decided to change the law–illegally–again by delaying the individual sign up mandate until after the 2014 elections as well as allowing people to keep insurance plans that do not meet the minimum requirements until when? You got it. Until after the election.
This is not how laws work. the president does not have the legal authority to do what he is doing by the stroke of a pen. Why he is not being challenged is just another example of how weak willed our elected leaders are.
http://www.galen.org/topics/at-least-27-significant-changes-already-have-been-made-to-obamacare/