The Patriot Post® · Did Someone Say 'Delay'?

Another election-year delay of an ObamaCare requirement is in the offing. The Hill reports, “As early as this week, according to two sources, the White House will announce a new directive allowing insurers to continue offering health plans that do not meet ObamaCare’s minimum coverage requirements.” In other words, you can “keep your plan” – until after the election. The move will create chaos for insurers who now have to decide whether to keep offering a doomed plan for just a little while longer. But as one health insurance consultant observed, that’s not the point – political gain is. “I don’t see how they could have a bunch of these [cancellations] going out in September. Not when they’re trying to defend the Senate and keep their losses at a minimum in the House.”

As National Review’s Charles C.W. Cooke puts it, “This anonymous ‘consultant’ appears to have forgotten that this is a constitutional republic, not a benevolent dictatorship. How could the Obama administration have a ‘bunch of these announcements going out in September’? Well, because the Obama administration’s signature law demands that these announcement go out in September – and, as we are all utterly bored of being reminded every time that someone suggests changing it by the proper channels, that law was passed through Congress, signed by the president, and upheld by the Supreme Court. If its opponents are expected to accept that Obamacare is the ‘law of the land’ – and, too, that it can only be altered if they win an election and pass their coveted changes through the established order – shouldn’t its supporters be expected to accept that rule, too?”