The rapid collapse of ObamaCare

It is rare indeed that both sides of Congress can agree on anything......so it is incredibly heartening that there is bipartisan agreement that the implementation of ObamaCare is a mess.

..... there is no hiding the embarrassment of a climbdown on a high-profile feature of President Obama’s signature initiative. Although the administration was determined to do all it could to hide it. It was apparently planning to announce it on July 3 — only because the day before Thanksgiving (or Christmas Eve) was too far off.

The purported reason for the delay is incompetence. The administration’s story is that it simply couldn’t find a way to implement the insurance-reporting requirements on employers in the time-frame set out in the law. Merely as a side-effect, it had to put off the mandate and the $2,000 per-employee fine on employers with more than 50 employees who don’t offer health coverage.

Jarrett portrayed the decision as about “cutting red tape." “As we implement this law,” Jarrett explained, “we have and will continue to make changes as needed.” But the law is supposed to be the law, not optional suggestions from Congress.

In Jarrett’s view, ObamaCare is little more than warrant for the Obama administration to decide how it wants to run the American health-care system, one executive decision at a time.

ObamaCare was sold on the twin, flagrantly false promises that you could keep the insurance you have and the prices for insurance would drop.

It doesn't matter how Obamacare was sold, they were going to do it regardless of what anyone else thought of, or said about it. These arguments were used solely to quell public backlash against the government grabbing one sixth of the nation's economy. No "sales job" was ever necessary.

"...It’s on tape..."

Oh boy!

There was a tape of 0 going on about "how great it was that a boy born in Kenya could become a senator in America" and another tape of Mooch blabbering about the clown having been born in Kenya too.

Tapes have a way of disappearing and...

We have always been at war with Eastasia.

In Jarrett’s view, ObamaCare is little more than warrant for the Obama administration to decide how it wants to run the American health-care system, one executive decision at a time.

Jarrett is Obama's "Momma" or "Big Sister" figure. She is a major influencer of his decisions, when he gets around to making them. He pays little attention to the advice of anyone else, especially other men. He needs a strong woman to tell him what to do.

Homosexual men often seek out women as role models and advisors. Since they are immune from women's sexual wiles, they can be more objective with them and will listen to and trust their counsel.

They don't see other men as role models; they only want affection from them.

"Pay no attention to the men behind the curtain." They are there for other purposes. Pay attention to woman behind the curtain. She is controlling what really happens.

Employer Mandate? Never Mind
wsj | July 3, 2013 / FR Posted by upchuck

These columns at WSJ fought the Affordable Care Act from start to passage, and we'd now like to apologize to our WSJ readers. It turns out we weren't nearly critical enough. The law's implementation is turning into a fiasco for the ages, and this week's version is the lawless White House decision to delay the law's insurance mandate for businesses, though not for individuals.

... Companies with 50 or more "employee equivalents" must pay a $2,000 penalty per full-time employee if they don't provide government-approved health insurance. The provision was supposed to start in January, and delaying it is like Ford saying its electric car is ready to go, except the electric battery doesn't work.

But all of a sudden on Tuesday evening Mark Mazur—you know him as the deputy assistant Treasury secretary for tax policy—published a blog post canceling the insurance reporting rules and tax enforcement until 2015 as Washington began to evacuate for the long Independence Day weekend. Enjoy the holiday, mate.

White House fixer Valerie Jarrett tried to contain the fallout with a separate blog post promising that ObamaCare is otherwise "staying the course." That's true only if she's referring to the carelessness and improvisation that have defined the law so far.

Mr. Mazur cited the "complexity of the requirements" as the reason for the delay. He isn't talking about business confusion and uncertainty, as damaging as those are. This is probably an admission that Treasury's information technology isn't ready to process and cross-check paperwork across the 5.7 million businesses in America, especially the pass-through S-corps and partnerships that file under the individual tax code.

This is more than a typical government snafu. It relates directly to the design of the law, which was thoughtlessly written and rammed through Congress with instructions for the bureaucracy to figure it all out. (Excerpt) Read more at online.wsj.com ...

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