Obamacare: well now, it seems that…
…it’s the honor system for Obamacare income subsidies.
Oh, that’ll work just fine.
Unbelievable. And yet at this point, ever so believable:
The White House seems to regard laws as mere suggestions, including the laws it helped to write. On the heels of last week’s one-year suspension of the Affordable Care Act’s employer mandate to offer insurance to workers, the Administration is now waiving a new batch of its own ObamaCare prescriptions…
HHS now says it will no longer attempt to verify individual eligibility for insurance subsidies and instead will rely on self-reporting, with minimal efforts to verify if the information consumers provide is accurate.
Remember “liar loans,” the low- or no-documentation mortgages that took borrowers at their word without checking pay stubs or W-2s? ObamaCare is now on the same honor system, with taxpayers in tow…
In other words, anyone can receive subsidies tied to income without judging the income they declare against the income data the Internal Revenue Service collects. This change has nothing to do with the employer mandate, even tangentially. HHS is disowning eligibility quality control because pre-clearance is “not feasible” as a result of “operational barriers” and “a large amount of systems development on both the state and federal side, which cannot occur in time for October 1, 2013.”…
HHS promises to develop “a more robust verification process,” some day, but the result starting in October may be millions of people getting subsidies who don’t legally qualify.
Cloward-Piven, anyone?
A cynic might observe that a Chicago politician will always maximize opportunities for fraud and corruption. One who is perhaps even more cynical, or realistic, might respond, “why limit it to Chicago politicians?”.
Barack “Cartman” Obama decides what the law is, when he will enforce it and who he will enforce it against. He took the Decider-In-Chief mantle and is running far with it.
If the media had any integrity they would be pounding on Obama for his selective enforcement of laws. It’s called the executive branch for a reason.
This is not as brilliant as it looks. The key parties affected (small and medium businesses) have already acted to restructure themselves for 2014. Delays till 2015 will only allow their competitors to catch up. Lots of part timers, moving to self- insurance plans that escape much regulation etc.
The death blow will be delivered by the Doctors. While visiting my sister over the 4th, she told me that the pediatrician who lived next door was giving up his practice to join a concierge practice. (bad name, good idea). None of the subsidized plans will pay for this, but self-insured businesses could do so in theory.
BHO swore an oath to faithfully uphold the rule of law. Obamacare was passed by congress and signed into law by the president. If the regime can not, as they claim, put in place the bureaucracy needed to execute the law of the land it shows they are incompetent and/or sly SOBs. Perhaps Nancy can now admit she still doesn’t know what is in it.
These latest developments have a great potential to embarrass BHO and the democrats in the Senate. As a first step, the House should pass legislation to repeal the provisions Team Obama does not wish to enforce and toss the hot potato to the Senate.
Hot Air linked to an article claiming that this vioolation of rule of law would kill immigration “reform”. If you can’t trust Obama to follow the law with respect to his signature legislation, how could you trust him to enforce the border?
Indeed. And it increases uncertanty. Which does not exactly aid long term buisness planning.
This sort of activity suggests they may never enforcde these parts of the law. Or perhaps they will, on the revised timetable. Or perhaps they will yet again revise the time table.
Don, 5:56 pm — “If you can’t trust Obama to follow the law with respect to his signature legislation, how could you trust him to enforce the border?”
For many of us, it’s not as though we trusted him before.
And the same naifs that trusted him before, including many RINOs and people that you’d think should know better, will trust him again.
And again.
People
Drop your healthcare, go to an obamacare center or whatever they are, and tell them you can’t afford healthcare for your family of 8. Dress the part. Get everyone you know to do the same. Save some money and bankrupt the system at the same time.
Seriously, this is probably a bunch of dumb questions, but isn’t the IRS in charge of collecting penalties and insuring that everybody has coverage, and couldn’t they tell from your tax return if you were actually defrauding the system? How many more layers of govt are required to compare adjusted income to the maximum level for subsidies (surely it will show up that you’re covered and by what entity, and the subsidy is probably going to be taxable ). Why wouldn’t this trigger a visit from the friendly men in black? Hasn’t it occurred to anyone at genius headquarters the IRS will have all this on a tax return?
Laws that can be selectively enforced are often quite useful to tyrants.
Also, does anybody else see a problem with the government actively encouraging lying and dishonesty among the population?
I’m sure it’s just a coincidence.
A supporting strategy inflates the workforce with illegal aliens and causes more natives to rely on welfare.
http://cis.org/immigrant-gains-native-losses-in-the-job-market-2000-to-2013
Obama seems to be allergic to the actual work required for governing. He just makes speeches, puts his signature on a bill, and then assumes that ‘others’ will implement ‘his’ law.
When does the Right get the guts to Cloward Priven the left?
Evil has its day, for sure. But so does the Good. The Good side always only fails when it refuses to fight.
I don’t understand why we aren’t seeing more evidence of serious talk of revolution. For example, Ed Driscoll has an article on the FDAs big takeover of middle-size farming. This is a serious usurpation of personal and business rights.
http://pjmedia.com/eddriscoll/2013/07/08/when-the-guy-comes-with-a-clipboard/
This is what the Obama/fascist regime is doing everywhere: squeezing out the mid-size producers and destroying the smaller businesses of America. The big contributors to Obama’s regime…GE, Bill Gates, Warren Buffett, etc. etc…get the EPA, FDA, IRS, Agriculture dept. to crush their competitors.
I don’t understand the seeming passivity of millions of Americans. Even though our U.S. media is hopelessly in the pocket of Obama/Soros/the Chinese/or whomever, it would be such a simple matter to use the foreign press to inform Americans about serious dissent.
I know, Promethea. I expected the civil war to break out in 2009.
Every passing day it doesn’t start only allows the regime to further cement its hold on power.
It is long past time to start hunting down and killing tyrants.
I’m done with the ballot box. It’s time for the cartridge box.
I can explain it to you Promethea: The Liberals took first the schools. Classic education in America has been destroyed. It lies in ruins now for years and on the other side the brainwashing continues daily. Those you students are now in their 30s and 40s. An entire generation and a half does not even know how to spell revolution. They think it concerns clothing.
Bill Bennett refers to Plato frequently saying that the two most important things about any society is who gets to teach the children and what they teach them.
Plato was right. We are living at the fall of civilization.
Plato also chronicled the progression of government structures. We are in the late democracy phase. The next marker is social chaos and disorder from the people and from the collapse of the unworkable system based on lies and false promises.
Soon after that – and it cannot be long after that since chaos is unlivable – comes tyranny.
Since these things are a continuum and not clearly demarcated stages, you can already see tyranny at work.
Welcome to the New World Order.
Mike-
Social chaos and disorder=Cloward-Piven.
Everything is right on track.
Revolution? Dream on. Ain’t gonna happen. Sheep don’t revolt; they sicken and die.
Incompetence, deceit, and corruption. Yes he can!
Obama not only tolerates, but actually enables fraud, waste, and abuse.
FORWARD to dysfunctional convergence.
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“I don’t understand why we aren’t seeing more evidence of serious talk of revolution. ”
Mostly because those who were serious, already knew that the Left’s power cannot be openly contested, for people have already given up the role of the occupation forces. They can no longer utilize COIN to fight the Left’s insurgency. Instead they are reversed and are now the insurgency the Left fights (counter anti revolutionary forces). When the revolutionaries kill the ruling regime and installs themselves as the regime, they are forced to crush the rebels that disagree. If they don’t, the same will happen to them that they made happen to the last regime.
Americans just sort of forgot where their power came from, that’s all. They thought voting in a dictator or megalomaniac was a simple thing, that they could take back if they were wrong. Thus decades and centuries of work, can be destroyed by a single person with 4 hours a day of free time. Such is the scale of difference between what is required to create vs what is required to destroy.
It’s also because people who are serious about revolution would be taking a risk, when government forces are primed to find out WACO like groups and exterminate them, far more than they would against even Islamic terrorist cells.
I said somewhere after 2009 that it would take 100 WACOs before serious actions are implemented.
We haven’t even gotten to the 50% bar here, by my estimate.
One of the reasons why revolutions often fail is because they start too late. They only start when the average person loses trust in the system and hates it enough to kill and die. That’s not very conductive to an orderly society afterwards. So in order to make a revolution succeed, one must win without involving much of the middle or lower class. However such a revolution would never achieve success without either a lot of foreign aid or domestic aid from the occupation forces themselves (the rich).
In some ways, the revolution wins by ramping up hate against the ruling order. But at that time, it also fails, because the same hate they will have to diminish and control afterwards.
If America ever gets to the point where 75% of the people believe in civil war enough to kill and die for it… America as a country will no longer exist afterwards, no matter who wins. Because a people that no longer considers themselves dutiful citizens, Will Not Be Made to Bow to A New KING Afterwards.
No matter whether that ruler is nice, competent, good, or evil.