Once again, we are finding out the Obama administration
has no regard for Congress, the rule of law or the American people. The bureaucrats that infest this lawless
administration spit on us every chance they get. What did they do this time? Sylvia Burwell, secretary of Human and Health
Services, illegally transferred $2 billion in taxpayer monies to insurance
companies. Obamacare has turned into a
huge failure and the only way to keep this program afloat is to raid the U.S.
treasury. The Hill reported the
following:
The reinsurance program was designed to collect $10 billion in its
first year of existence, 2014, while collecting another $2 billion that would
be deposited into the U.S. Treasury.
But not enough money was brought in to
cover those amounts, so the administration, through regulations in 2014,
prioritized giving money to insurers. None of the money was given to
Treasury for the first year.
Republicans say that action clearly
violates the healthcare law, which states that $2 billion “shall be deposited
into the general fund of the Treasury of the United States and may not be used
for the program established under this section [i.e. the payments to
insurers].”
To support their case, Republicans point
to a report from the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service that found the administration’s interpretation
“would appear to be in conflict with a plain reading” of the law
This country has a profound problem. Federal bureaucracies have taken it upon
themselves to ignore laws by implementing rules and regulations they deem appropriate. Here is Secretary Burwell’s explanation for
violating U.S. law:
The administration has emphasized that no complaints were raised
at the time the decision was announced in regulations, and in fact said
that all of the comments were positive. The American Academy of Actuaries
praised the decision to prioritize payments to insurers over the Treasury,
saying the move could help lower premiums.
“We believe that we have the authorities,
and as I mentioned [earlier], we actually published for comment and notice the
approach that we were going to take to use those authorities, and did not have
any of the concerns raised as part of that public process,” Burwell said under
questioning at a Senate Appropriations Committee hearing last week.
These federal bureaucracies are a making a mockery of our
constitutional republic. The time for
comments was completed during the legislative process where our elected
representatives forged this law, and even that was bastardized by the Democrats.
Americans had better wakeup to the fact we are no longer
citizens. We have become subjects and
our rulers are nameless, faceless, federal government bureaucrats who have a
pen and a phone. But hey, according to
them, we can at least find solace in an obscure comment section in some buried
rule and regulation no one, not even our congressmen are aware of.
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