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Thursday, June 11, 2015

SCOTUS Could Wreck Obamacare!

June 11, 2015 HHS , Obamacare 0 Comments
Health Chief Burwell Hints At Planning For ObamaCare Decision

By Peter Sullivan, Jun. 10, 2015, The Hill

Secretary of Health and Human Services Sylvia Mathews Burwell on Wednesday hinted at the administration’s planning for the looming ObamaCare Supreme Court case.

In previous testimony before Congress, Burwell had repeatedly declined to discuss any administration plan for King v. Burwell, which could invalidate subsidies that help 6.4 million people afford insurance in roughly three dozen states using the law's federal exchange.

But Burwell said Wednesday before the House Ways and Means Committee that the administration would do “everything we can” to deal with the fallout from a ruling against the law.

“We’ll do everything we can, we’re working to make sure we are ready to communicate to the states and do everything we can,” Burwell said.

Still, Burwell emphasized that most of the solution would lie with Congress and the states, because only they could restore the subsidies if the Supreme Court ruled that they cannot be distributed through the federal exchange.

More: www.thehill.com

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Saturday, April 12, 2014

Fall Gal: Sebelius Quits After Ocare Roll-Out --Dumb law, stupidly implemented. Obama HAD TO replace her with a woman

April 12, 2014 Democrats , HHS 0 Comments
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By Tom Howell and Dave Boyer, Apr. 10, 2014, The Washington Times

With the rocky rollout of his health care law in a post-deadline lull, President Obama will move this week to shake up his health care team, accepting the resignation of Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and tapping his budget director as a troubleshooting replacement, the White House confirmed Thursday.

Mrs. Sebelius, a former Kansas governor who has served as HHS secretary for Mr. Obama’s entire tenure, was the president’s point person as his signature law stumbled out of the blocks in October.

Despite calls for her to be fired, Mrs. Sebelius stayed on the job to oversee a recovery of HealthCare.gov that resulted in at least 7.5 million enrollments for health care plans.

Mrs. Sebelius, however, is seen as damaged by too many congressional Democrats who are warily eyeing November’s elections, in which Obamacare is expected to play a major role.

Some Republicans could barely contain their glee.

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Sunday, March 30, 2014

6 Big Unanswered Questions About Obamacare --Just another stop on the road to single-payer, the true goal all along.

March 30, 2014 Congressional Budget Office , HHS 0 Comments
By Peter Suderman, Mar. 28, 2014, reason.com
Obamacare supporters are taking a bit of a victory lap today after yesterday’s administration announcement that six million people have signed up for private plans under the law, equaling the revised projection put out by the Congressional Budget Office after the botched launch of the exchanges last October. 

It’s a weak cause for celebration, given that success, according to Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, was originally "at least" seven million people getting covered under the law by the end of March. And as an Obamacare factoid, the six million sign-ups figure just doesn’t tell us all that much about whether and how the law is working. There are still a lot of major unanswered questions about the law and its future.

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Tuesday, March 25, 2014

ObamaCare's Latest Legal Challenge: Can the White House Simply Declare That Federal Gov't is the 51st State?" --Yep!

March 25, 2014 American Postal Workers Union , D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals 0 Comments
Mar. 23, 2014, The Wall Street Journal
A defining feature of President Obama's second term is his willfulness in defying limits on executive power to suit his political goals, and no more so than with the Affordable Care Act. The judiciary is the last check on those abuses, and this week it will have another opportunity to vindicate the rule of law.
On Tuesday the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals will hear one of the more important legal challenges to ObamaCare's lawless implementation. Unlike the challenge to the individual insurance mandate, Halbig v. Sebelius involves no great questions of constitutional interpretation. The plaintiffs are merely asking the judges to tell the Administration to faithfully execute the plain language of the statute that Congress passed and President Obama signed.

The Affordable Care Act—at least the version that passed in 2010—instructed the states to establish insurance exchanges, and if they didn't the Health and Human Services Department was authorized to build federal exchanges. The law says that subsidies will be available only to people who enroll "through an Exchange established by the State." The question in Halbig is whether these taxpayer subsidies can be distributed through the federal exchanges, as the Administration insists.
Prior to passage, Democrats were divided over the structure of the exchanges, with liberals favoring a national clearinghouse and moderates state control. The federalists won and conditioned the subsidies on state-based exchanges.

This was no accident. The federal government cannot commandeer the sovereign states under the Constitution, so Democrats created an incentive for Governors to participate voluntarily.


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