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| U.S. Health Secretary Kathleen Sebelius |
Correct me if I’m wrong here, but the Patient “Protection” and “Affordable” Care Act does say that states could decline to take up ObamaCare’s administrative burdens if they so chose, and that the federal government would then step in and handle it for them, right? Are they just mad that states didn’t fall in line according to their wildly optimistic calculations, or did the Obama administration suddenly decide to arbitrarily and unilaterally change that rule, too?
Via Bloomberg:
Kathleen Sebelius, the secretary of Health & Human Services, said the Affordable Care Act will succeed in states run by Democrats who have embraced the law. In states such as Georgia where the governor and legislature are in Republican hands, “the job is made doubly difficult,” Sebelius said in an interview today during a visit to Atlanta to meet with supporters of the law. …
The comment further drives a wedge between the Obama administration and Republicans who have opposed the 2010 health-care system overhaul and continue to undermine next year’s core implementation. Republicans in Indiana, Ohio, Georgia and Florida have said people who buy insurance for themselves face huge premium increases — as much as triple in Georgia, the state’s insurance commissioner, Ralph Hudgens, said on July 30.
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