{"id":17893,"date":"2013-05-11T20:03:32","date_gmt":"2013-05-12T00:03:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=17893"},"modified":"2013-05-11T20:03:32","modified_gmt":"2013-05-12T00:03:32","slug":"sebelius-pressuring-health-companies-to-promote-obamacare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/17893\/sebelius-pressuring-health-companies-to-promote-obamacare\/","title":{"rendered":"Sebelius Pressuring Health Companies to Promote ObamaCare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this year Michael Barone catalogued a litany of abuses to the rule of law perpetuated under the Obama Administration. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/articles\/340637\/obama-s-gangster-government-michael-barone\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cGangster Government\u201d<\/a> is the term Barone coined to describe the behavior.<\/p>\n<p>As of Friday, Barone needs to update his list.<\/p>\n<p>Sarah Kliff broke the news that Kathleen Sebelius, Secretary of Health and Human Services, has been calling health care executives, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/wonkblog\/wp\/2013\/05\/10\/budget-request-denied-sebelius-turns-to-health-executives-to-finance-obamacare\/\" target=\"_blank\">\u201casking them to make large financial donations to help with the effort to implement President Obama\u2019s landmark health-care law\u2026\u201d<br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\nImagine the conversation. A health care CEO gets a personal call from the chief regulator of his business suggesting that the company and the people it employs make financial donations to promote a law administered by the regulator.<\/p>\n<p>Sounds like a suggestion that can\u2019t be refused, right?<\/p>\n<p>As Barone would say, this is Gangster Government.<\/p>\n<p>Republicans in Congress need to push back hard on this abuse of power by Sebelius.<\/p>\n<p>The people running businesses are there to make profits, not spend precious resources on ruinous fights with thugs spending taxpayer money.<\/p>\n<p>If Sebelius can get away with coercing businesses to \u201cdonate\u201d money to promote a law that increases her power over them, an awful precedent will be set. She \u2013 and any of her successors \u2013 will be able to tax, fine and now \u201cfundraise\u201d the very people they regulate.<\/p>\n<p>Fail to pay enough, and say goodbye to your livelihood.<\/p>\n<p>Congress needs to put a stop to Sebelius\u2019 abuse of power. Now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this year Michael Barone catalogued a litany of abuses to the rule of law perpetuated under the Obama Administration. \u201cGangster Government\u201d is the term Barone coined to describe the behavior. As of Friday, Barone needs to update his list. Sarah Kliff broke the news that Kathleen Sebelius, Secretary of Health and Human Services, has [&hellip;]<\/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":[84,3308,186,476,35,2594],"class_list":["post-17893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-congress","tag-health","tag-hhs","tag-kathleen-sebelius","tag-obamacare","tag-rule-of-law"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17893","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=17893"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17893\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17900,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17893\/revisions\/17900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}