{"id":13613,"date":"2012-03-30T15:10:47","date_gmt":"2012-03-30T19:10:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=13613"},"modified":"2012-03-30T15:10:47","modified_gmt":"2012-03-30T19:10:47","slug":"too-big-to-read-may-make-obamacare-fail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/13613\/too-big-to-read-may-make-obamacare-fail\/","title":{"rendered":"Too Big to Read May Make ObamaCare Fail"},"content":{"rendered":"

Remember in 2009 when conservatives in Congress presented an alternative to ObamaCare<\/a> that would have guaranteed bipartisan support for some of the outcomes the Obama White House and its liberal allies wanted?\u00a0 Had the liberals concentrated on targeted reforms instead of a gargantuan\u201ccomprehensive solution\u201d not only would the ultimate bill have been much shorter, it would have been much easier to read and comprehend.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s a point worth considering since judging by the comments from the Supreme Court this week, passing health reform piecemeal would have been a far better strategy for those wanting to salvage the legislation.<\/p>\n

Due to ObamaCare\u2019s massive size, Byron York notes that none of the Justices actually admitted reading the entire law<\/a>.\u00a0 \u201cI haven\u2019t read every word of [the law], I promise,\u201d said Justice Stephen Breyer on Wednesday.\u00a0 Justice Antonin Scalia\u2019s comments to an attorney defending the law were more pointed: \u201cYou really want us to go through these 2,700 pages?\u201d\u00a0 \u201cYou really expect the court to do that?\u201d<\/p>\n

The problem for ObamaCare\u2019s defenders is that the Justices\u2019 refusal to read the entire law means that they are much less likely to rule the individual mandate unconstitutional and keep the rest.\u00a0 Instead, they\u2019ll just invalidate the whole thing and have Congress start over.<\/p>\n

If that happens, the liberal mania for \u201ccomprehensive\u201d solutions for everything from illegal immigration to financial transactions and health care will be dealt a much-deserved blow.\u00a0 You can\u2019t interpret what you can\u2019t define.<\/p>\n

If the Court strikes down ObamaCare in its entirety liberals will have only themselves to blame.\u00a0 Had they listened to conservatives, some of the popular aspects of ObamaCare \u2013 guarantees of coverage and subsidies for premiums \u2013 would likely be in place with bipartisan support.\u00a0 Now, they may have nothing to show for what could ultimately end up being a massive waste of time and money.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Remember in 2009 when conservatives in Congress presented an alternative to ObamaCare that would have guaranteed bipartisan support for some of the outcomes the Obama White House and its liberal allies wanted?\u00a0 Had the liberals concentrated on targeted reforms instead of a gargantuan\u201ccomprehensive solution\u201d not only would the ultimate bill have been much shorter, it […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[12,311,35,1447,92],"class_list":["post-13613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-health-care","tag-individual-mandate","tag-obamacare","tag-reform","tag-supreme-court"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13613"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13613\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13623,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13613\/revisions\/13623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}