- Key Obamacare architect admits to lies to get it passed – and the Obama administration’s disdain for the opinions of the American people.
- The United States Supreme Court has determined to hear a key aspect of Obamacare’s implementation. If it rules against the Obama Administration it could be the legislation’s downfall.
- Dick Morris sees a ruling in favor of challengers to the law as an opportunity for Republicans to push their health care reform measures.
- An anti-cronyism parallel path to health care reform
Democrat lies, coverups and disdain
Posted here is an important revelation that came to our attention first from the Heritage Foundation’s publication The Daily Signal. The video was initially unearthed by Rich Weinstein and the organization American Commitment was also instrumental in exposing the matter.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=G790p0LcgbI
From The Daily Signal:
The Right Scoop adds this pulled quote:
Gruber pointed out that if they had told the truth about Obamacare, it never would have passed.
“This bill was written in a tortured way to make sure the CBO didn’t score the mandate as taxes. If CBO scored the mandate as taxes the bill dies.…If you made it explicit that healthy people pay in [and] sick people get money it would not have passed.”
Supreme Court to take up key aspect of Obamacare: American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ) reports it as a “stunning development.”:
Friday, the Supreme Court said it would review ObamaCare, again.
This time because the IRS rewrote the law, all on its own.
This case is critical. If the Supreme Court rules against ObamaCare, it would strike down the law’s most important elements.
President Obama would have to go back to the drawing board, this time dealing with a conservative majority in Congress.
Dick Morris sees daylight: Enter: The GOP Alternative To ObamaCare
The Supreme Court decision to hear challenges to the legality of giving subsidies to families and individuals who signed up for ObamaCare through federal exchanges could lead to the de facto repeal of the program. And, with the Republican victory in the midterm elections, the next step could be the passage of the Republican version of ObamaCare — an excellent piece of legislation that the country will happily accept.
After briefing readers on the merits of the Republican alternative Morris addresses the political question: Would Obama veto the Republican bill?
Much as his veto pen will be itching to do so, he really won’t be able to use it. Once ObamaCare subsidies are struck down by the Supreme Court, seven million or more Americans will be out of health insurance entirely. Most will have once had adequate policies for which they paid themselves, only to find that Washington forced cancellation of their policies and made them buy insurance on the federal exchanges. Having gotten more coverage, at a higher cost, than they could either afford or need, they became dependent on the federal subsidies the court will have just thrown out.
Obama and the Republican Congress will have a moral and political imperative to restore their coverage. They and most of America will approve of the Republican alternative and Obama will be unable to veto it with the presidential elections looming.
Be the hero — gut crony capitalism in Obamacare — force true reform
Unfortunately the many months to a Supreme Court decision, with no guarantee that they will overturn Obamacare on the grounds at issue, does not put the country at ease as the damaging inculcation of Obamacare goes on. The election mandate is clear enough. The American people already see that the government takeover of healthcare has devastating implications for the quality of health care, individual rights and responsibilities, medical ethics, the doctor-patient relationship, health care costs, citizens relationship to government and other profound social and cultural implications.
If Republicans are to deserve continued support they must do what is necessary to stop it, that includes defunding key aspects as they come up in the budgeting process and removing key aspects that Democrats will find politically untenable to prevent. Repealing the medical device tax is much talked about but does not force fundamental change.
Streiff (Diary) , a Redstate feature, refers to an essay in the Federalist by Senator Mike Lee that contains what we think might be the hero making political path to stopping Obamacare, thereby setting the stage for the “imperative” scenario set forth by Dick Morris in the previous section where he focuses on a scenario relying on a decision from the Supreme Court. The same court that already went out of its way to sustain Obamacare. Lee’s essay was about a wider ranging Plan to Fix Congress but we picked up on this aspect especially:
We could—and really, must—eliminate the taxpayer bailouts for big insurance companies in Obamacare’s “risk corridors” program . . .
The costs to taxpayers of Obamacare are going to accelerate because the legislation is economically untenable for insurance companies to moderate premium levels for long. The insurance companies accepted Obamacare because of the bailout provisions Lee refers to. Remove them and the crony capitalist support base to Obamacare collapses, indeed is reversed. As Lee further states in his essay:
Anti-cronyism legislation is win-win for the GOP. It is good policy, restoring growth and fairness to an economy that Big Government and Big Business have rigged against the little guy. And it’s even better politics, standing up for the middle class while pinning hypocritical Democrats between their egalitarian talking points and their elitist agenda.
Taking on crony capitalism is a test of the political will and wisdom of the GOP. To become the party of the middle class and those aspiring to join it—our only hope for success in 2016 and beyond—we have to change more than our rhetoric. The new Republican Congress does have to get things done, but those things have to be for Main Street, too, not just Wall Street and K Street. A big part of our “governing” test is whether we can stand up to special interests . . .
This issue is reaching critical mass on the Right. And as I see it, it’s now a political necessity, another one that we should embrace rather than resist . . .
In passing anti-cronyism bills, we can either achieve policy wins for economic growth and opportunity, or we can let the president explain in his veto messages why taxpayers, whose take-home pay is stagnant, should be subsidizing corporations, whose profits have never been higher. That’s a brand-changing debate Republicans can win.
Remove the bailout provisions – leverage the crony and anti-crony capitalist sentiment — set the scenario for a Republican healthcare plan that Obamacrats will either fall on their sword to try to prevent, exposing them to political devastation, or they get out of the way and the best healthcare system in the world is saved. R Mall
In a newly surfaced video, one of Obamacare’s architects admits a “lack of transparency” helped the Obama administration and congressional Democrats pass the Affordable Care Act . . .
“Lack of transparency is a huge political advantage,” says the MIT economist who helped write Obamacare. “And basically, call it the stupidity of the American voter or whatever, but basically that was really, really critical for the thing to pass.”