Obama ignores the rule of law on Obamacare

Sen. John Cornyn:

With each passing day, it becomes more and more obvious that President Obama’s health-care law is simply unworkable. Yet rather than accept reality and support full congressional repeal of the law, the administration is instead violating Obamacare and applying it selectively.

Last month, for example, President Obama unilaterally delayed the requirement that large employers provide health insurance to their workers, and he also delayed various oversight provisions. More recently, he intervened to protect the health-care benefits received by members of Congress, and his administration confirmed that it will delay enforcement of a cap on out-of-pocket costs. In addition, to help implement Obamacare, the IRS has announced that it will issue health-insurance subsidies through federal exchanges, even though the law makes clear that those subsidies can be issued only through state exchanges.

Speaking of which, the administration is reportedly running months behind schedule in preparing data security for the exchanges.­­ Meanwhile, states across the country are projecting that Obamacare will cause individual insurance premiums to skyrocket. A new National Bureau of Economic Research paper suggests that the law may also trigger “substantial declines in aggregate employment.” It is already prompting businesses to replace full-time jobs with part-time jobs: That’s a major reason why the number of people doing part-time jobs for economic reasons soared from 7.6 million in March to 8.2 million in July.

I voted against Obamacare four years ago, and I strongly support replacing the entire thing with patient-centered reforms that actually address America’s biggest health-care challenges. Indeed, my colleagues and I are ready to work with President Obama to give businesses and individuals permanent relief from a public-policy debacle. That’s how the legislative process functions: If the president and members of Congress object to a law — or a portion of a law — because they think it’s bad policy, they work together to fix it.
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He gives other examples of where Obama has ignored laws he finds inconvenient or unpopular with his constituents.  His beef should also be with Democrats in the Senate who support this abuse.  He should be making it an issue that they are confronted with in the 2014 election.