-By Warner Todd Huston
Today Barack Obama claimed that he was going to “fix” Obamacare by making insurance companies continue to offer those polices belonging to millions of Americans that have been cancelled because of Obamacare. But does he have the legal ability to do this?
On Thursday morning Obama held a press conference again apologizing for the mess that has been the Obamacare rollout and for his four-year-long lie that we could keep our insurance “if we like it.”
So, Obama made the proclamation that instead of losing our insurance, we can keep it for another year. How generous of him, eh?
This is something one-time candidate for the Democrat nomination for President, Howard Dean, thinks that Obama probably cannot do.
“I wonder if he has the legal authority to do this, since this was a congressional bill that set this up,” Dean said on MSNBC after the President’s address.
Already authorities from Washington State have said that they cannot allow the President to reverse his destruction of millions of insurance policies and simply reinstate them just on his say so.
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Even Lefty Howard Dean Thinks Obama Has No Authority to Fix Obamacare”