In today’s American Spectator, I discuss the gradual disintegration of Obamacare and the growing frustration of its advocates with Obama and the bureaucrats who are supposed to be implementing the monstrosity: I recently came across a post in Time’s Swampland blog titled, “Obamacare Incompetence” … It seems that Joe Klein, a usually reliable Democrat hack, [...]
In today’s American Spectator I suggest that no one should be surprised that the Obamacare application contains a voter registration feature. What good is a vote-buying scheme if one doesn’t steer subsidy recipients to a place where they can register as Democrats and keep the cash coming? Conservatives are outraged that “reform” is being used [...]
If so, I’ve got a bridge in Brooklyn you might be interested in purchasing. To quote one of Michael Barone’s readers (via PJ Tattler), whose 35 years of IT experience provides the kind of insight required to understand the complexity of the task: The federal government is going to build 50 exchanges, using a data [...]
Now that the deadline has passed for committing to the insurance exchanges without which ObamaCare cannot function, at least half the states have told the Obama administration to shove it: These 25 have told HHS to set up its own exchanges. This is a huge dilemma for Commissar Sebelius because she has pay for federally [...]
As I and others have pointed out before, any state that creates an ObamaCare insurance exchange is getting suckered into footing the bill for a federal program. The latest state to reject this scam is New Jersey, whose governor just vetoed a state-run exchange proposed by his legislature: Gov. Chris Christie vetoed legislation establishing a [...]
As I and others have pointed out, one of the most important obstacles to ObamaCare’s success is the refusal of many states to set up the insurance exchanges it calls for. The law makes it clear that only state-created exchanges can distribute the subsidies without which the program will fail. Federally-created exchanges can’t distribute subsidies [...]
In today’s American Spectator I discuss the civil disobedience of the states that refuse to set up ObamaCare insurance exchanges. The ostensible purpose of these exchanges is to provide “marketplaces” where people without health insurance can acquire subsidized coverage. Ironically, the law doesn’t actually require states to set up these bureaucracies. Yet, as Sally Pipes [...]
Like Bobby Jindal, Rick Scott, Scott Walker, and a growing number of additional state governors, Rick Perry has told HHS Commissar Sebelius that Texas won’t be creating a state-based insurance exchange or expanding Medicaid. His letter puts it as follows: Neither a ‘state’ exchange’ nor the expansion of Medicaid under the Orwellian-named PPACA would result [...]
My column in today’s American Spectator discusses the possibility that the states can cause ObamaCare to die on the vine by refusing to set up its insurance exchanges: Although the voters can put an end to the madness on November 6, the states don’t need to wait until Election Day to take aim at ObamaCare’s [...]
