SALT LAKE CITY – ObamaCare, the president’s signature domestic policy achievement, turns four at the end of the week. But after so many missed deadlines, delays and unilateral changes to the new law the American people have more cause for confusion than celebration.
Here’s a quick look at the growing list of shifts in deadlines and major adjustments to key parts of the law that have left consumers, job creators, and insurance companies, alike, wondering what’s actually working with ObamaCare:
- “(In 2013) the president has quietly delayed, modified, or selectively enforced elements of Obamacare more than a dozen times.” (Obamacare’s Year of Delayed Deadlines, Bloomberg, March 13, 2014)
- “…the Administration quietly excused millions of people from the requirement to purchase health insurance or else pay a tax penalty.” (ObamaCare’s Secret Mandate Exemption, Wall Street Journal, March 12, 2014)
- “Delays in Obamacare’s most destructive requirements are so common — and so obviously motivated by political considerations — they aren’t even newsworthy anymore.” (Another ObamaCare Delay, Las Vegas Review –Journal, March 11, 2014)
- “…a flurry of changes by the Obama administration has led to a frenzied effort among employers, insurance companies, politicians and consumers to try and understand what they might mean.”(Slew of changes to health-care law creates more confusion for consumers, Washington Post, March 8, 2014)
- “…more than 37 significant changes already have been made to ObamaCare: at least 20 that President Obama has made unilaterally…” (37 Changes to ObamaCare…So Far, Galen Institute, March 5, 2014)
- “The Obama Administration announced it would postpone enforcement of a federal requirement for medium-size employers to provide health insurance to employees…” (Further Delays for Employers in Health Law, New York Times, February 10, 2014)
- “The Obama administration has decided that the sequester’s mandatory spending cuts no longer apply to part of Obamacare.” (White House: Sequester No Longer Applies to Part of Obamacare, National Journal, March 13, 2014)
Submitted by the Office of Sen. Orrin Hatch
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Welcome to the banana republic where laws are ignored, skirted, or entirely replaced by regulations, taxes are augmented by fees, and the Constitution is used as toilet paper. orrin “I’m mad as heck and I’m only going to take it for 3 or 4 more terms” hatch and his cronies like mccain are just as culpable in this as pelosi, reid, and emperor obamao. (lack of capitalization intentional, none of them deserve it). progressivism isn’t limited to one party and along with apathy and political correctness will spell destruction for our once-great nation.
Healthcare should be free. Education should be free. Food should be free. A place to live should be free. But, instead lets have the overtaxed middle class pay for everyone.
Brian, right on …. “isn’t limited to one party” that’s the key. As long as one is
voting or supporting a ‘party’ that way goes to the same old same old. We are
a “once great nation” . The greed kinda creatively got in the way. Now what
we gonna do? with our Congressional Military Industrial Complex monster that
is slowly eating us alive.
Oh look, the Crypt Keeper and his cronies are having another knee jerk reaction to Obamacare.
Orrin is a self-licking ice cream cone, useless and the mess is a real pain.
AND WHAT THE …* HAVE YOU EVER DONE FOR ANYONE ORRIN??!! TRY PAYING MEDICAL BILLS OUT OF POCKET. AT LEAST OBAMA HAD THE GUTS TO TRY AND DO SOMETHING FOR REGULAR FOLKS… WT…* HAS ORRIN CLOWN EVER DONE??!
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AND YOU RIGHT-WINGERS WILL PISS AND MOAN ABOUT OBAMACARE, BUT YOU ALL WILL BE FIRST IN LINE TO USE IT! HYPOCRITE CLOWNS….
Ed. ellipses …*
BESIDES WHINING, MAYBE COME UP WITH SOME ORIGINAL IDEAS ORRIN! YOU OL’ GOON YOU… LOL 😀
Yet again, Orrin’s legacy is going to be one of doing nothing but throwing stones at others (I’m going to start keeping a tally of how many times I make this comment)