America’s new socialized medicine law – rammed down the throat of a reluctant Congress in 2010 and upheld by a divided Supreme Court a year ago – is proving to be a bit of a bear to implement.
Last week the administration of U.S. President Barack Obama announced its decision to delay the implementation of a key provision of the law – the employer mandate – while this week a report in National Journal reveals the extent to which the White House has known about looming problems with the bill’s controversial state-run exchanges.
The common thread in both stories? An administration which is literally rewriting the law on the fly …
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Have they started the Medicare/Medicaid savings, where they could save $500 billion to help cover the costs of obamacare? That was 2-3 years ago, I believe.
ReplyDeleteGreat job guys, keep up the great job you do for your country.
Question? How can the law be rewritten by the Obama administration when it was upheld by the Supreme Court. So, basically the Supreme Court's decisions mean nothing to Obama. Or, the Supreme Court is worthless.
ReplyDeleteChange is always difficult and anxiety provoking but our current system of healthcare costs 2.8 Trillion dollars and buys us quality ranked 28th in the world
ReplyDeleteThe law was never read by any of the Congress before it was signed in to law, not that it would have made any difference. The people that needed to be reading and commenting on this would have been those of the medical profession and medical billing. Physicians nation-wide spoke out about the craziness of this nonsense and no one was listening. Now many physicians are walking away, or going in to academia fields. Once there are fewer doctors and even fewer appointment there will be more unhappy consumers.
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