Rather than retread the ground Michael Cannon ably covered yesterday regarding President Obama’s healthcare speech – short version: we’re all in this together, so if you’re against Obamacare, you’re for letting people die in the streets – I want to look ahead to what our fearless leader will do if the government does indeed lose King v. Burwell.
We’ve famously been told that the Department of Health & Human Services has no Plan B. But what if the Supreme Court forces the executive branch’s hand? Yes, there’ll be plenty of finger-pointing and demagoguery as a high-stakes game of chicken unfolds among the White House, Congress, and various state governments. But what could Obama/HHS do? Remember, this is the president who has a pen and a phone, and “if Congress won’t act, I will.”
The running joke is that HHS/IRS will simply promulgate another rule deeming all federal exchanges to be state exchanges. But that couldn’t possibly be the answer, could it?
Read more at http://www.cato.org/blog/what-will-obama-do-he-loses-king-v-burwell
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