As usual this fix is only for political purposes...taxpayer again become pawns in Obamas political games of power and control. Such regulatory rewriting is also probably illegal. The Administration claims it has enforcement discretion to suspend the regulations. But like the employer mandate Mr. Obama also delayed for a year, their hard start-dates are defined in the statute—January 1, 2014. The black-letter law of the Affordable Care Act does not say the rules apply whenever they are politically convenient. The Presidents regulatory rewrite looks all the more cynical because it was rolled out a day before a House vote on legislation that would do much more to solve the cancellation problem. Republican Fred Uptons bill would allow insurers to sell policies to new customers as well as the old. This would increase the odds that the industry would want to sell profitable policies outside of ObamaCares exchanges. But Mr. Obama cant tolerate that because it would begin to re-establish a viable private insurance market with more consumer choices that competes with his exchanges. Mr. Obama knows that those exchanges cant succeed if people are allowed to choose a lower-cost, higher-quality alternative. online.wsj/news/articles/SB10001424052702304243904579197892755143418?mod=wsj_review_&_outlook
Posted on: Tue, 19 Nov 2013 05:40:23 +0000