Tuesday, November 11, 2014

ObamaCare About to Eat Itself From the Inside?

The video of an ObamaCare architect admitting to the necessity of obscuring the bill and needing the stupidity of voters has generated a "butterfly effect" in the history of ObamaCare. The video prompted a tsunami of further investigation into the actions of the architect and the language in the bill, and has revealed a defect which will be very useful in the "King v. Burwell" case, which will wind up in the US Supreme Court.

The details surround the individual state's formation of exchanges; those states which did not form exchanges would have their citizens punished financially to the point where millions might lose their insurance. This sort of punitive discrimination could stop the law cold in its tracks, unless Congress opts to change the wording of the law. Congress could do that, or Congress could do nothing (mimicking Harry Reid mode), and let the law die. Even in the lame duck Congress, the House could merely sit on its hands and watch the fun.

It's so ironic. By not reading the bill before it was passed to catch such things, the law itself could commit suicide by discrimination, written right into it by its architects. How about that, Pelosi? Looking back on this period in a few years, one suspects that it might look quite comical and the Dems will look especially ludicrous.

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