ObamaCare: the cover-up and blame game begins. The bill was written by legislative incompetents, all Democrats, of course, and now they have to deal with the mess they have written into law, all by their lonesome.

The Huffington Post and the Marxist Morons who write for that partisan rag,  detail a story that reveals one of a number of serious oversights within ObamaCare. 

Turns out that hundreds of thousands of families will not qualify for Federal assistance in purchasing their insurance.    The articles author,  is all about blaming the GOP for not being willing to fix this problem,  even before the GOP knows of this problem  (it is just now being reported),    “since they want the entire bill repealed,  anyway.” 

But,  of course,  this is not the GOP’s problem.  The Dems wrote this bill and the Administration is responsible for its content.  Let them fix the problem.  Heck,  they can cram a solution through congress by hook or crook.  That is what they did before . . . .   or the GOP can use this for leverage to amend the more egregious portions of this idiot law.  

Guaranteed,  this is only the first of a number of very serious issues with ObamaCare.  You can bet on that.  And all of this mess is on the Democrat Socialists who currently rule this nation. 

They allowed three or four of their number to write the overview of this law;  they bribed their members,  they passed a bill that no one read,  and ridiculed the helpless Republicans  and,  now,  they have a huge mess on their hands. 

The article talks as if an October 1, 2013,  deadline will be met,  a deadline for the creation of the 50 state exchanges.  But 25 of the states will not participate in these exchanges,  knowing that the Administration’s claim of assistance  is nothing but a lie.   I believe there is no start-up money,  or not enough, to fund for this mess.  

More than this,  the Administration cannot find 15 medical personnel to man their “death panel.”  No one wants to do it.  They have to commit to a six year term and cannot make an income from any other source. 

That came out in reports,  yesterday. 

The Democrat strategy is clear:    write a screwed up bill,  completely exclude the opposing party,  and,  then,  blame that party for not cooperating with the bills rewrite and amendments. 

Will these Socialist Charlatans get away with this?  Time will tell.  

I thought someone should tell you this before election day: You are no longer allowed to spend your own money to save your own life. After November, its all written in stone.

<<<<<  (from this post) treatment a doctor and patient deem advisable to save that patient’s life or preserve or improve the patient’s health, but which exceeds the standard imposed by the government, will be denied even if the patient is willing and able to pay for it  

With all the talk surrounding the constitutionality of ObamaCare,  no one is really looking at the details of the bill,  itself.  What is much more troubling,  in my opinion,  than the individual mandate,  whether via "commerce" or the power to tax without representation,  is the very existence of the Independent Payment Advisory Board ( IPAB for short).  This is Sarah Palin's "death panel" and it is as real as rain.  In my memory,  Governor Palin was the first to tell us about this board.  While you can find information telling you which section of ObamaCare created this board,  the fact of the matter remains that this 15 member panel of non-medical types was created and funded in the Stimulus Act of 2009,  a full year before  ObamaCare became law.  It's sole reason for existence is the containment medical costs and its power to do so is nearly unlimited, as per the dictation of the ObamaCare Tax Act.   

One of the more egregious elements embedded within the power structure of IPAB is its independence.  Congress cannot amend an IPAB decision except by a 3/5 majority vote  (it only takes a 2/3 vote to amend the Constitution and you know how often that happens).  For all practical purposes,  then,  this advisory board's decisions are not reviewable,  certainly not amendable.   And, like the EPA,   neither are its decisions subject to judicial review.  Judiciary review is expressly prohibited by the reform law.        

The board's sole responsibility is to control costs.  The ObamaCare tax law provides for IPAB directives that  limit what ordinary citizens and their health insurance coverage can pay for medical treatment so as to prevent it from keeping up with the rate of medical inflation.

To implement these recommendations, the federal Department of Health and Human Services is empowered to impose so-called “quality” and “efficiency” measures on health care providers. Doctors who violate a “quality” standard by prescribing more lifesaving medical treatment than it permits will be disqualified from contracting with any of the health insurance plans that individual Americans, under the Obama Health Care Law, will be mandated to purchase. Few doctors would be able to remain in practice if subjected to that penalty.

This means that treatment a doctor and patient deem advisable to save that patient’s life or preserve or improve the patient’s health, but which exceeds the standard imposed by the government, will be denied even if the patient is willing and able to pay for it.  Obama Health Care Law specifically directs the board to make “recommendations to slow the growth in national health expenditures” for private—not just governmentally funded—dollars devoted to health care. These recommendations are supposed to limit what ordinary citizens and their health insurance coverage can pay for medical treatment to force it below the rate of medical inflation.

Robert Powell Center for Medical Ethics/ Mona Charen/ J Smithson./ 

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End Notes:  

Even Critics of ObamaCare’s Independent Payment Advisory Board Miss Its Worst Rationing   (linked to here )

It isn't just the mandate  by Mona Charen  ( linked to here )

Obama's Death Panel: A Double Dose of Anti-Constitutional Outrages   ( Left Coast Liberal  and his article found here ).