http:\/\/bit.ly\/1aAzKyZ).<\/a><\/p>\nBut let\u2019s understand, mandating that single young men insure themselves for pregnancy services was no bureaucratic snafu.\u00a0 Like every other deception in the program, it disguised an aspect of the law that was unpalatable to large numbers of Americans, in this case a new tax \u2014 a tax to force the young to pay for the old, effectively a tax on being young, a youth tax.<\/p>\n
The president may have whistled a happy tune for us, but the purpose of his deception was very clear to tell.\u00a0 As we have since learned, the White House\u2019s calculations showed that their ideas would not work unless the young (who consume few health services) ponied up for the old (who consume a great deal) whether they wanted to or not. \u00a0Apparently this conundrum did not cause White House and Congressional Democrats to question their plans \u2013 only to hunt for ways to conceal them.<\/p>\n
Making the program voluntary would drive all those deceptions into the open.<\/p>\n
So, among other things, no more draconian fines on the Little Sisters of the Poor or Hobby Lobby \u2013 or anyone who, for reasons of conscience or, for that matter, of whim \u2013 declines any aspect of coverage.\u00a0 That would end what appears now to have been a hidden agenda against the free exercise of religious faith as it has long been understood in our country.<\/p>\n
If the president and all those Democratic members of Congress who gave us the Affordable Care Act want to implant in the United States government an insurance company that competes on truly equal terms with other insurance companies, that is one thing.\u00a0 But if in doing so they want to use the government\u2019s coercive powers, that is quite another.<\/p>\n
Since Obamacare\u2019s commencement, we have received an enormous lesson in the wisdom of our nation\u2019s founders and the dangers of ignoring that wisdom.\u00a0 In 2009, in passing the Affordable Care Act and other actions, particularly passage of Dodd- Frank, the administration and its Congressional allies swept away the restrictions of limited government and, in many instances, separation of powers and rule of law.\u00a0 They vilified anyone who objected and assured us that they themselves were the vanguard of a benign future.<\/p>\n
Of course, if the goal had truly been to ensure that all Americans could receive a doctor\u2019s care, the entire program was unnecessary. Federal law already required that every emergency room in the nation provide health services to anyone who showed up at the door.<\/p>\n
Still the president said we were going to have fundamental change, even as everything would remain the same.\u00a0 But aren\u2019t the youth tax, the massive fines on the Little Sisters of the Poor and all the deceptions and excesses exactly where the tearing down of Constitutional restraints leads?<\/p>\n
Once we had government of, by and for the people. In a heartbeat, we have glimpsed government that sees the people as of, by and for it.<\/p>\n
Is this truly a future from which we cannot turn back?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
In the closing days of 2013, Senator Ron Johnson (R., WI) made national news when he opined that Obamacare could not be repealed.\u00a0 Too much about health insurance coverage had changed since the program\u2019s implementation commenced on October 1st.\u00a0 There was no longer a way to go back. Set aside that, judging from the vagueness […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[12,60,64],"class_list":["post-1696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economic-policy-health-care","tag-hugh-hewitt","tag-obama","tag-obamacare"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clarkjudge.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clarkjudge.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clarkjudge.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clarkjudge.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clarkjudge.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1696"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.clarkjudge.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1696\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1919,"href":"https:\/\/www.clarkjudge.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1696\/revisions\/1919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clarkjudge.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clarkjudge.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clarkjudge.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}