Op-Ed: Obamacare isn’t about health care, it’s about
power
The Examiner – Analysis – 5/15/2013
On Friday, the Internal
Revenue Service finally disclosed that it had spent years targeting tea party
and other conservative groups, delaying their applications for non-profit
status and giving those applications additional scrutiny — solely because of those
groups’ political beliefs.
Also on Friday, The Washington
Post revealed that Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius
personally asked health industry groups to contribute to Enroll America
While we don’t yet know all
the details about these scandals, we do know that the IRS grossly abused its
power at a time when Obamacare grants it massive new authority. The Treasury
Department’s Inspector General has said Obamacare represents “the largest set
of tax law changes in 20 years,” with at least 42 provisions adding to or
amending the tax code.
A 2010 Congressional
Research Service report found that the number of new bureaucracies “that will
ultimately be created” by Obamacare “is currently unknowable.” Little wonder
that Vice President Biden boasted shortly before the law was passed, “We’re going
to control the insurance companies.”
That’s what Obamacare is
about. It’s not about health care. It’s about government control and power. And
the record of this Administration shows its willingness to use this power in
arbitrary and harmful ways.
Secretary Sebelius’s
recently disclosed fundraising campaign tried to make an end-run around
Congress, forcing private companies to give money for a pro-Obamacare marketing
campaign that Congress itself has refused to fund.
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