How Can Obamacare be Defeated?

Rush commented yesterday on the story about McDonald's thinking about dropping its health care coverage, and then pointing out that Sebelius (and whoever is in her position in future) will have the power to give waivers to whomever she wants...and that's very true. The government proves itself to be incompetent every day...do we really want them to have anything to do with our healthcare? Will they magically get that right when everything else they do is bloated, red-tapish and wrong?

RUSH: Wall Street Journal: "Federal Agency Flexible on McDonald's Plan -- The Obama administration said Thursday that its top health official will 'exercise her discretion' in enforcing a new health-law requirement, a move that could help McDonald's Corp. and other employers from disrupting their health-care policies for hourly workers." Now, doesn't this kind of put the lie to all the denials issued yesterday by the White House and McDonald's? McDonald's even issued a statement calling media reports about it's health care coverage speculative and misleading. And yet the regime said yesterday its top health official will exercise her discretion in enforcing a new health law requirement. Folks, this is the mini-med plan. To me this is an example of the health care bill unraveling, because apparently now what Kathleen Sebelius -- and this is in the law, at the secretary's discretion, I don't know in the bill it's in there "at the secretary's discretion" so she can choose to exempt some people from the law and hold others to it.

"The announcement Thursday followed a report in The Wall Street Journal that McDonald's warned federal regulators it could drop its health-insurance plan for nearly 30,000 restaurant workers unless regulators waive a new requirement of the health overhaul. ... On Thursday, administration officials indicated they are hopeful that HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius will be able to allow certain waivers to the requirement, but that it was too early to confirm they will. She must wait for guidance from state insurance commissioners, and the administration doesn't expect to release the agency's final guidance until December." Now, this is funny. Ms. Sebelius has no problem issuing dictates about health insurance rates which are in fact approved by state insurance commissioners, but now when she needs somebody to hide behind, she conveniently remembers that they are the ones who actually call the shots. So everything yesterday was true. McDonald's was gonna cancel, and they can't afford it. They're the first of many, by the way, who aren't going to be able to afford it.