The First Day of Obamacare
As an end of year wrap-up of what’s been an eventful year in health care, it’s worth taking the time for a light-hearted tally of all the harmful effects of Democrats’ new and unpopular health care law. So on this December 25 – the first day of Christmas – we bring you the first in a series highlighting “The Twelve Days of Obamacare.”
On the first day of Obamacare, the government gave to me…A health insurance mandate “fee”: The health care law includes an unpopular mandate to purchase government-defined insurance – a mandate that candidate Obama opposed when he was running for President. And even though President Obama last year “absolutely” rejected the notion that forcing individuals to buy a product constituted a tax increase, the Obama Justice Department is now attempting to defend the mandate’s unprecedented imposition of federal power on the grounds that the mandate is a constitutional tax imposed by Congress.