Michael Connelly expounds on some of the definitions added to Obamacare:
What exactly is behavior health modification and where is the Constitutional authority for the Federal government to try and modify or control the behavior of the American people when it comes to things like what we eat and the amount of exercise we must have? What will the government be looking at when it comes to our “mental health” and “behavioral health?” In the former Soviet Union people who opposed the Communist form of government were regularly committed to mental institutions and in Communist China those who exhibited behavior contrary to that mandated by the State were sent to “re-education camps” in order to modify their behavior.
And then, he returns to the fundamentals:
Moreover, at the beginning of the Executive order Obama says this: “By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including section 4001 of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act Public Law 111-148, it is hereby ordered as follows:”
I beg to disagree Mr. President. While Section 4001 of the Health Care Bill may claim to give you this authority, the Constitution of the United States, that you took an oath to defend and uphold, does not give you any such authority. Unless I am violating an existing Federal or State criminal law, nothing I say or do as an American citizen is subject to your control.
The Constitution is the supreme law of the land. It cannot be modified except by the specified amendment process. Thus, Congress cannot simply pass a lawgiving the president authority to make law — that power is specifically enumerated as belonging to Congress, and the process for passing a law is not the same as the process for amending the Constitution.
Thus, the president still does not have the authority to make law, but only the authority to enforce that law that is constitutional.
The realities of ObamaCare continue to be revealed. Under the Orwellian-named Affordable Care Act, you are more likely than not to be shuffled into a plan more expensive than what you currently have.
Congress has no authority under the Constitution to control what health insurance your purchase, and these mandates should be vigorously ignored and fought.
Therefore, effective March 23:
- Individuals seeking new or alternative coverage can only buy policies that “comply with Affordable Care Act provisions from which grandfathered health plans are exempted.”
- Groups seeking new or alternative coverage (obviously including new groups) are in the same boat.
- As shown earlier this morning, any changes beyond trivial to existing group or individual policies will cause those policies to lose their grandfathered status, forcing those plans to “comply with Affordable Care Act provisions.”
Thus, those looking to purchase new policies or who make even minor changes to existing policies that lead to de-grandfathering will have three choices:
- ObamaCare's specified minimum coverage levels, which are far higher and far more expensive than typical private plans.
- Coverage that is more generous and therefore even more expensive than ObamaCare's specified minimum — but not too generous. As commenter Gary Hall at the previous NewsBusters post noted, if one has coverage that is considered overly generous, it will run the risk of being considered a “Cadillac” plan subject to a 60% excise tax. By 2018, when that tax takes effect, the distance between ObamaCare's high-threshold minimum coverage and where the “Cadillac tax” kicks in may not be very great. A majority of large-employer plans and plans at many small professional enterprises may end up being subject to the tax.
- Paying penalties as individuals for not buying insurance or as employers for not covering employees.
While it is not surprising that politicians lie, it is continually how many people still believe politicians’ lies! And here it turns out that Obama’s promises that “if you have a plan you like, you can keep it” were lies, and you will most likely forfeit your health care plan and be put under ObamaCare over the course of the next few years.
Internal administration documents reveal that up to 51% of employers may have to relinquish their current health care coverage because of ObamaCare.
Small firms will be even likelier to lose existing plans.
The “midrange estimate is that 66% of small employer plans and 45% of large employer plans will relinquish their grandfathered status by the end of 2013,” according to the document.
In the worst-case scenario, 69% of employers — 80% of smaller firms — would lose that status, exposing them to far more provisions under the new health law.
via Leaked ObamaCare Docs: Majority of Employer Health Plans Won’t Be ‘Grandfathered’ | NewsBusters.org.
