Tuesday, July 21, 2009

Health care: Obama knows best, will do it

"Today, the Obama administration delivered one of the more remarkable presidential power grabs seen in recent memory ...

"The president has decided — just days before the deadline he himself set for passage of health-care bills in both chambers of Congress — that he wants to create a new and very powerful executive branch agency, the Independent Medicare Advisory Council (IMAC), which would be accountable only to him and have the authority to re-write the Medicare program from top to bottom by executive memo. Now that’s audacious."

Some might say it has more than a hint of statism, fascism, totalitarianism--dare we say indications of a "unitary executive" bent ala what they/the left got so outraged about when the President was a Republican named George Bush.

Read the whole piece:

http://healthcare.nationalreview.com/post/?q=OWJlODMyMmFkYzNhYzk4YTY2ZTI5ODM2MTAwZjEwYjg=

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