Once upon a time, Obamacare was “settled” law that was “here to stay.” Or so President Obama said—before Obamacare failed to survive contact with reality.
The reality is that the Administration is delaying the impact of
major parts of the law, including the employer mandate and now the
benefit mandates for health plans.
There’s a slight problem: As the President so readily reminded us,
Obamacare is still the law of the land. Without undoing the law,
everything that has people up in arms—the higher costs, mandates, plan
cancellations—will still happen.
And this latest one-year “fix” isn’t a given. As Heritage’s Chris Jacobs put it: “The President’s promise that his new ‘plan’ can allow people to keep their plans is just as flawed and false as his original ‘like your plan/keep it’ pledge.”
The “fix” is another Obama attempt to go outside the law and around Congress. But even the President can’t just un-cancel people’s insurance plans.
Read more......
http://blog.heritage.org/2013/11/15/believe-obama-time-now-now/
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