Yet again, Obama plays dictator with 'settled law'...'law of the land' they said.WeaselZippers: Obama can not compel insurance companies to reissue cancelled plans, and he knows this. This is a scam to try and divert the outrage towards the insurers.
Couple of questions: How are the millions who have already received cancellation notices going to get their plans back? Do they have to re-apply? Are the insurance companies going to wave a magic wand and void the cancellations? What about the people who already bought a new plan?
On the bright side, since this is an administrative and not legislative fix, Democrats can’t campaign on having voted to fix it.
Obamacare: ripping apart liberty and constitutional governance daily!
ADDENDUM: What the hell?! Check out this AP headline: 'Policy Cancellations: Obama Will Allow Old Plans' ...HE will ALLOW?
And you don't think the media has already deemed him a dictator?
ADDENDUM II: Rush reacts to Obama’s ‘ObamaCare fix’...
...saying it's a fairy tale that this ever could be fixed!
TheWeeklyStandard: Earlier this week, former President Bill Clinton advised President Obama to "honor the commitment" he made and to allow Americans to keep their health care plans, if they like them.
Now President Obama is taking Clinton's advice and trying to honor that commitment. In remarks today at the White House today, Obama said, "I completely get how upsetting this can be" lose insurance plans that I promised Americans would be able to keep. "To those Americans, I hear you loud and clear."
But there's a catch with the president's proposed solution. The president is not proposing that the law be changed to allow all health insurance plans grandfathered into Obamacare's eligibility requirements.
No, instead the White House is saying that it will use "enforcement discretion" to allow illegal health insurance plans to be able to still be sold. That is, the Obama administration will not enforce the penalty on individuals for not having eligible health insurance plans and they'll allow the insurance companies to still sell so-called bad plans -- plans they technically can't sell under Obamacare.
President Clinton famously dismissed Obama's candidacy for president of the United States by saying, "Give me a break. This whole thing is the biggest fairy tale I have ever seen."
With Obama's reliance on "enforcement discretion," it would now seem that Clinton had a point -- and that the "fairy tale" continues.
