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Obamacare is the President’s war on the rule of law
CitizenLink – October 7, 2010
of Economics Wreaking Havoc on Health Care Law
By Catherine Snow
The utopian promises made by President Obama about the health care overhaul are proving – rapidly – to be everything but what was pledged.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) recently granted 30 large companies – including McDonald’s – special waivers from adhering to certain mandates in the health care law. Positioned by HHS as a step to provide “continuous coverage,” policy watchers call it a move to avoid nearly one million workers from being left without coverage – right before the election.
Philip Klein wrote today on The American Spectator:
“Yet by granting waivers to avert PR nightmares, like the news of McDonald’s dropping coverage, it also adds another disturbing element to the ObamaCare regime. Those companies with the best access and lobbyists are in the best position to be granted a waiver. Bureaucrats can choose to apply a different set of rules to different businesses, and in some cases those rules can determine whether a given business survives. Thus, the waivers themselves are another example of the arbitrary nature of government power.”
Read the complete article here.