Re: Obama’s Cynical Maneuvering on the H ealth-Care Mandate

So if they rule the mandates unconstitutional, then that will lead to  
a single payer system..no?  Republicans be careful what you wish for!

regards,
-Lance

On Dec 13, 2010, at 11:04 PM, Peter Chattaway wrote:

> http://www.commentarymagazine.com/blogs/index.php/wehner/384145
>
> Peter Wehner - 12.13.2010 - 4:05 PM
>
> In his 42-page ruling that the keystone provision in President  
> Obama’s health-care law — the mandate to force Americans to purchase  
> health insurance — is unconstitutional, Judge Henry E. Hudson made  
> several powerful arguments. But there is one to which I want to draw  
> particular attention.
>
> On page 25 of his decision, Judge Hudson writes, “Despite pre- 
> enactment representations to the contrary by the Executive and  
> Legislative branches, the Secretary now argues that the Minimum  
> Essential Coverage Provision is, in essence, a ‘tax penalty.’”
>
> That’s a polite way of saying that the Obama administration  
> willfully misled the public during the health-care debate. In fact,  
> President Obama repeatedly denied that the mandate was a tax — but  
> now, in order to pass constitutional muster, his administration is  
> insisting it is. I urge you to watch the president’s interview with  
> ABC’s George Stephanopoulos to see just how emphatic Obama was. When  
> Stephanopoulos says that the mandate is a tax increase, Obama scolds  
> Stephanopoulos. “That’s not true, George,” the president says. “[It]  
> is absolutely not a tax increase.”
>
> Now the president and his administration are arguing exactly the  
> opposite.
>
> This is a deeply cynical maneuver on the part of the man who  
> promised to put an end to cynical political acts. Like so much of  
> what Obama said, this promise was fraudulent. Perhaps the White  
> House press corps will insist that the president and his spokesman  
> explain the inconsistency between what Obama said and what his  
> administration is now asserting.
>
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