Obamacare vs. the Rule of Law

When you write legislation that's over 2000 pages long and no one reads you can put a lot of stuff in it that only shows up when it's too late.

At The Foundry (Heritage Foundation) we find that none, NONE of the promises that the Democrats made about ObamaCare were true.

Obamacare is deeply unpopular with the American people because, as the massive regulatory regime goes into effect, the American people are noticing that none of the administration’s promises are being honored. The cost of health care is going up, not down. Health care spending is going up, not down. Millions of Americans are not able to keep their insurance.

The response by Gangster Government?

To combat this reality, the Obama administration struck back last Friday. Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius sent a letter to America’s Health Insurance Plans warning them that “there will be zero tolerance” for “falsely blaming premium increases” on Obamacare. Specifically, Sebelius threatened to punish non-subservient firms by excluding them from the government regulated and mandated health insurance exchanges. Since these exchanges will be the primary way most Americans receive health insurance (especially if more private firms decide to end their current coverage) such a decision by Sebelius would be a death sentence for any insurer that does not comply.

This is an issue of the destruction of freedom for Americans.

Never before in the history of our republican form of government has an administration threatened to extinguish individual firms for merely communicating with their customers. But such are the dictatorial powers Obamacare grants to Secretary Sebelius. There are over 1,000 instances in the more than 2,700 page bill where Congress granted Secretary Sebelius new powers to regulate the health care industry. For example, her power to “determine” what does or does not count as a medical expense alone will decide the fate of many health insurance firms.

You may not care if insurance companies live or die, but you should. Each insurer that goes out of business is one less choice for you.  If you like living in a country with one car company, one food company, one clothing company, one insurance company, every one of them "private" but ruled from Washington, you will like living in a fascist state.

One of the wonders of America that strike foreigners from communist countries was the incredible variety of choices in American stores.  The Left Fascists have long decried the "waste" that his variety implies and have long wanted to create one standard, government approved, item of ... everything.  Imagine to efficiency of one type of clothing for everyone, make and female, small or large.  You don't have to imagine very much, look at China under Mao wearing the Mao suit.  That, my friend, is government regulation and government standardization.

Of course Mao's suit was made of better material, his palaces were more spacious, his transportation was more private and luxurious, but then all animals of equal but some are more equal than others.