Law and Order is a TV show crime show where a crime is committed, usually a murder, and the detectives try and solve the crime, usually going through a host of suspects.
In the last scene, they question a suspect and the suspect usually starts crying, but because of the questioning of the cops, the suspect usually gives up and confesses. The detectives then read the suspect their rights, puts handcuffs on them and the suspect goes for a perp walk on their way to jail.
Well. ObamaCare was murdered this week and the list of suspects would be this:
Republicans
Moderate Democrats
Democrats up for election in 2014, 2016
Most of the public
Most States
Insurance companies
Taxpayers
Through questioning, all of these suspects were cleared. They were either incompetent or had alibis.
So, in the final scene of the show, the TV screen would read:
1600 Pennsylvania Ave.
Washington D.C.
Home of President Barack Obama
From The Best of the Web:
"Keep the good, fix the bad" may be the emptiest political slogan since "Hope and change" and "Yes, we can." And if that's what you want to do, electing members of Congress is superfluous anyway. "Fixes" to ObamaCare have been coming fast and furious from the Obama administration. The latest is a suspension of the individual mandate tax for two more years--through 2016--for anyone who claims a "hardship."
The Department of Health and Human Services effected that extension stealthily last week; the news was broken only today, in a Wall Street Journal editorial, which argues:
This week, however, ObamaCare defenders have been touting a new Gallup survey. "Don't Expect Conservative Media to Cover This New Obamacare Poll," taunts the headline of a post by The New Republic's Jonathan Cohn. "According to the survey, the percentage of uninsured Americans is down to 15.9 percent," he boasts. "That's lower than its peak last year and lower than it was in March 2010, when the Affordable Care Act became law."
The Department of Health and Human Services effected that extension stealthily last week; the news was broken only today, in a Wall Street Journal editorial, which argues:
HHS is . . . trying to pre-empt the inevitable political blowback from the nasty 2015 tax surprise of fining the uninsured for being uninsured, which could help reopen ObamaCare if voters elect a Republican Senate this November. Keeping its mandate waiver secret for now is an attempt to get past November and in the meantime sign up as many people as possible for government-subsidized health care. Our sources in the insurance industry are worried the regulatory loophole sets a mandate non-enforcement precedent, and they're probably right. The longer it is not enforced, the less likely any President will enforce it.All this for what purpose? Last week we noted a McKinsey & Co. study that found only 10% of previously uninsured Americans had signed up for ObamaCare policies. Forbes's Avik Roy reckons that amounts to fewer than 500,000 people.
This week, however, ObamaCare defenders have been touting a new Gallup survey. "Don't Expect Conservative Media to Cover This New Obamacare Poll," taunts the headline of a post by The New Republic's Jonathan Cohn. "According to the survey, the percentage of uninsured Americans is down to 15.9 percent," he boasts. "That's lower than its peak last year and lower than it was in March 2010, when the Affordable Care Act became law."
Then you see the detectives questioning President Obama. The cameras show Obama lying, lies about his alibies and he finally confesses: Yes, it was him who killed ObamaCare by getting rid of the individual mandate.
Considering that Obama got rid of this mandate and most other mandates, he has gutted the law and since the mandates were presidential orders, what president in their right mind would want to reinstate the mandates? A Republican certainly won't and I highly doubt Hilary or a Democrat president will put the mandates on the people.
About the only ones forced to comply with ObamaCare are unions with their Cadillac health care plans. Imagine that.
So, do you think Law and Order will make this episode? I kind of doubt it.
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