You would have thought that Chief Justice John Roberts had
shouted "fire" in a crowded theater. In upholding Obamacare, he set
off a headlong race for the exits by the same lobbying groups --
believe it or not -- that had cut deals with the administration to
create the legislation. Back then, the lobbyists were telling each
other: If you’re not at the table, you’re on the menu. Now the
bodies are piling up in the doorway as those who pandered to the
president trample over each other in their haste to get out of the
blazing or crumbling structure that is Obamacare. To paraphrase
Oscar Wilde on the death of Little Nell, no one without a heart of
stone can witness this deadly scene without wanting to laugh out
loud.
As reported on the front page of this weekend's Wall Street Journal, every one of the health-care industry groups that signed on to Obamacare in 2009 is looking for a way out.
Hospital groups now say they want Congress to peel back $155 billion in payment cuts that they agreed to in 2009. Representatives of Blue Cross Blue Shield Association, Aetna, Inc., and Humana Inc. say they need greater freedom to adjust premiums to reflect risk. Medical-device companies are making a new push to roll back their 2.3% tax. Hotels, retailers, and restaurant chains are clamoring for a two-year delay in enforcement of a requirement that they cover full-time workers or pay a penalty, giving them until 2016 to comply.
Implement-and-improve, the Democrats are now saying in indicating a new willingness to make election-year concessions in revising the hated law. Or as the president put it on Thursday: "The highest court in the land has now spoken. We will continue to implement this law. And we'll work together to improve on it where we can."
Read more: http://spectator.org/archives/2012/07/02/undoing-obamacare
As reported on the front page of this weekend's Wall Street Journal, every one of the health-care industry groups that signed on to Obamacare in 2009 is looking for a way out.
Hospital groups now say they want Congress to peel back $155 billion in payment cuts that they agreed to in 2009. Representatives of Blue Cross Blue Shield Association, Aetna, Inc., and Humana Inc. say they need greater freedom to adjust premiums to reflect risk. Medical-device companies are making a new push to roll back their 2.3% tax. Hotels, retailers, and restaurant chains are clamoring for a two-year delay in enforcement of a requirement that they cover full-time workers or pay a penalty, giving them until 2016 to comply.
Implement-and-improve, the Democrats are now saying in indicating a new willingness to make election-year concessions in revising the hated law. Or as the president put it on Thursday: "The highest court in the land has now spoken. We will continue to implement this law. And we'll work together to improve on it where we can."
Read more: http://spectator.org/archives/2012/07/02/undoing-obamacare
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