Monday, October 12, 2015

Obama dismantling Obamacare.


Obama Just Signed His 10th Bill Repealing (Parts Of) ObamaCare 

By JOHN MERLINE
INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY 
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If you listen to the rhetoric from Democrats, the proof that Republicans are fixated on repealing ObamaCare comes from the claim that they've voted 50-some odd times to do so.
That's not entirely true, since many were votes to repeal parts of the law.
What is true is that Obama himself has signed multiple bills into law that have repealed ObamaCare bit by bit.
The latest came this week when, to zero fanfare, Obama approved legislation repealing a mandate that companies with 50 to 100 workers be treated as "small employees" starting next year. Had it been left it place, many midsize companies would have been forced to buy policies in the heavily regulated small-group market. Even Democrats heralded the repeal as one that would protect small and midsize businesses by "limiting premium increases." (Never mind that ObamaCare itself was supposed to do that.)
This is, in fact, the 10th time that Obama has signed an ObamaCare repeal bill into law.
Soon after the GOP took control of the House, for example, they pushed through a bill stripping an onerous tax-reporting rule. Obama also agreed to cut $2.2 billion from a plan designed to create nonprofit insurance co-ops. He repealed the law's troubled long-term care insurance program. And so on.
This list doesn't include pending bipartisan efforts to repeal the law's medical-device tax or the Independent Payment Advisory Board.
Nor does it include the fact that Obama himself has made multiple changes to the law, almost all of which involved watering down or delaying its more costly or disruptive provisions. The Galen Institute counted 32 such changes.
This, keep in mind, is a law that Obama has claimed is working better than anyone had anticipated. Is it any wonder that he wants to keep all the repeal bills he's signed under wraps?

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