Here is a riddle: What cost twelve billion dollars but takes health insurance coverage away from more than a million Americans?
The answer is president Obama's action to delay the employer mandate of Obamacare for one year. I am not making this up. According to the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office, Obama's act will result in over an extra million folks being uninsured and it will cost the government an extra twelve billion dollars. So, with one quick action, Obama has managed to waste an enormous sum of money and to increase the numbers of people without health insurance at the same time. Here is the Reuters article explaining all of this. (And since it comes from Reuters, it is probably safe to assume that they are trying hard to make things look better for Obama. The actual truth must be even worse.)
The strange thing is that what Obama has done is completely illegal. As president, he does not get to pick and choose which laws or parts of laws are in effect. Only Congress can do that. Congresses make the laws, presidents just carry them out. So Obama illegally inflicts enormous costs on the country and snatches health insurance away from one million people. I wonder how many of these million will die from disease because Obama decided to do this. And why did Obama make this move? The answer makes things even worse: he did not want the employer mandate to go into effect until after the next election so it would not hurt the Democrats. America is getting hit with a double whammy that will likely kill people just so the Democrats can do better at the polls.
Obama is a nightmare.
h/t:sjb
The answer is president Obama's action to delay the employer mandate of Obamacare for one year. I am not making this up. According to the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office, Obama's act will result in over an extra million folks being uninsured and it will cost the government an extra twelve billion dollars. So, with one quick action, Obama has managed to waste an enormous sum of money and to increase the numbers of people without health insurance at the same time. Here is the Reuters article explaining all of this. (And since it comes from Reuters, it is probably safe to assume that they are trying hard to make things look better for Obama. The actual truth must be even worse.)
The strange thing is that what Obama has done is completely illegal. As president, he does not get to pick and choose which laws or parts of laws are in effect. Only Congress can do that. Congresses make the laws, presidents just carry them out. So Obama illegally inflicts enormous costs on the country and snatches health insurance away from one million people. I wonder how many of these million will die from disease because Obama decided to do this. And why did Obama make this move? The answer makes things even worse: he did not want the employer mandate to go into effect until after the next election so it would not hurt the Democrats. America is getting hit with a double whammy that will likely kill people just so the Democrats can do better at the polls.
Obama is a nightmare.
h/t:sjb
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