The president's "pen and phone" dictatorship strikes another blow

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Fox News: ObamaCare getaway: 5 US territories released from health care lawhttp://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/07/24/obamacare-free-getaway-for-5-us-territories/http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/07/24/obamacare-free-getaway-for-5-us-territories/

The Obama administration is coming under fire for once again making a unilateral change to ObamaCare -- this time, quietly exempting the five U.S. territories and their more than 4 million residents from virtually all major provisions of the health care law.

The decision was made a week ago, and was a long time coming. For months, the territories have been complaining that the law was implemented so poorly in their regions that it destabilized their insurance markets.

Until now, the Department of Health and Human Services claimed its hands were tied. But last Wednesday, the department reversed course.

The about-face has some questioning the department's authority to suddenly grant 4.1 million Americans an out from ObamaCare. It follows a cascade of prior unilateral actions delaying and nixing parts of the law for certain groups -- actions which in part prompted House Republicans to launch a lawsuit against President Obama challenging his use of executive power.

The order, originating with Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Administrator Marilyn Tavenner, covers Puerto Rico, Guam, the U.S. Virgin Islands, American Samoa and the Northern Mariana Islands. The reason: It is destabilizing island insurance markets.

Gee, it's destabilizing mainland insurance markets, too, and the White House response is, "Oh well ... "

Time for this guy to go. I'll give him this, though, he's getting clever. He has plausible deniability in this, since Tavenner and not he issued the order. He could always say, "Hey, I didn't do that!"

 

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The order, originating with Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Administrator Marilyn Tavenner, covers Puerto Rico, Guam, the U.S. Virgin Islands, American Samoa and the Northern Mariana Islands. The reason: It is destabilizing island insurance markets.

Gee, it's destabilizing mainland insurance markets, too, and the White House response is, "Oh well ... "

Time for this guy to go. I'll give him this, though, he's getting clever. He has plausible deniability in this, since Tavenner and not he issued the order. He could always say, "Hey, I didn't do that!"

Bush did it!!!!:smilewinkgrin::smilewinkgrin: