"Holy bait and switch Batman!"
Posted on 08/15/2013 10:51:40 AM PDT by Jim Robinson
In a recent speech to several hundred legislators and state health officers, Secretary Sebelius categorically asserted “this is not a bait-and-switch.” She was referring to the federal government’s commitment to funding 90% of the Medicaid expansion in perpetuity. There is widespread fear among the states that Uncle Sam will renege on this promise, leaving them holding the bag for whatever amounts federal policymakers decide can no longer be afforded. As a former Kansas legislator, insurance commissioner and governor, Secretary Sebelius presumably knows that she cannot bind the hands of a future Congress—either constitutionally, legally or even morally. The members of such a Congress are quite free to make their own determination of whether their counterparts in 2010 (all Democrats as it turns out) made a reckless and foolish promise that wholly lacked credibility in light of the country’s $230 trillion in debts and unfunded liabilities at the time of passage[1] and quite free to unburden future generations from that obligation if they so desire.
As CBS News reported, Secretary Sebelius had more to say:
“This is no longer a political debate; this is what we call the law,” Sebelius told a group that includes Democrats and Republicans, elected officials, political appointees and bureaucrats. “It was passed and signed three years ago. It was upheld by the Supreme Court a year ago. The president was re-elected. This is the law of the land.”
The reality is that the law being implemented is transparently not the law of the land that was passed by Congress in 2010. Indeed, it is quite debatable whether the law as it is being implemented could possibly have passed either the Congress of March 2010 or any subsequent Congress to date...
(Excerpt) Read more at forbes.com ...
I think this says it perfectly.
It is why there is good reason to have very little confidence in the federal government's promise of 90 percent funding perpetually...
"Holy bait and switch Batman!"
The Democrat Party (in fact, all Progressives, Socialists, Marxists, Stalinists, or any other name they choose with which to disguise themselves) has always dwelt exclusively in Bait and Switch.
Yes, as I have said. B&S is the only game the Liberals know.
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