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Do You Have Any Idea Just How Good This News Is?

Stay with me….(From the Union Leader)

The House Commerce and Consumer Affairs Committee on Tuesday recommended killing a bill that would have allowed the state to discuss running its own health insurance exchange under the Affordable Care Act.

House Bill 544 would have removed a prohibition in a 2012 law forbidding the state from running its own exchange and prohibiting state agencies from direct involvement with the federal exchange…The committee vote came a day after Gov. Maggie Hassan said through a spokesman that the 2012 state law, passed by what was then a Republican-controlled Legislature, was “extremely misguided” and “should be reconsidered.”

Why is it that Democrats want this for New Hampshire?  Why would they consider the prohibition ‘extremely misguided?’  Why should it be reconsidered?

Your Democrat Governor and the New Hampshire Democrat Party have their orders.

The Affordable Care Act forbids the federal government from enforcing the law in any state that opted out of setting up its own health care exchange, according to a group of small businesses whose lawsuit got a key hearing Monday in federal court.

UK Daily Mail

According to a lawsuit just green-lighted by a federal judge, the law as written makes it illegal for the Federal Government to enforce the employer mandate if the state has not set up its own State exchange.  The law also prohibits the Feds from using subsidies to encourage enrollment. (They are ignoring that, as is the IRS, big surprise.)

Thirty six states, including New Hampshire, opted out.  They chose not to set up a state exchange or prohibited the creation of one.  This effectively nullifies huge sections of the law in those states.    Yes, residents can choose to use a Federal point of access whether generic or state specific, but the law as written hamstrings the feds in a way that opens them to lawsuits should they try to enforce mandates which are prohibited in the absence of a State-level exchange.

New Hampshire Democrats want to sell you down the river to DC.  They want to allow the Feds to punish business owners or anyone who doesn’t fall in line and sign up for their train wreck.   That is why Governor Hassan and the Democrats consider the prohibition against bowing to DC on ObamaCare ‘extremely misguided,’ and that is ‘why it should be reconsidered.’

They have their orders.   Deliver New Hampshire.  They won’t stop trying to do it. (More from the UL.)

Also Monday, Hassan spokesman Goldberg said the governor “shares the frustration and disappointment” of those seeking to access health care coverage through the HealthCare.gov portal.

He also said that “this once again underscores that the law passed by the previous Legislature prohibiting a state-run marketplace was extremely misguided and has undermined health coverage” for Granite State families and small businesses.

Goldberg said Hassan believes the law “should be reconsidered in order to maximize control at the state level as we work to improve the quality and affordability of health coverage for all Granite Staters.”

It didn’t undermine coverage.  It secured freedom, a way out, and the possibility of avoiding the left’s lemming-like ideological cascade over the centrally-planned health-insurance cliff.

Thanks to the Republican Majority New Hampshire citizens have a choice.  They can still vote to participate in failure or they could foster that sliver of freedom  into something better than one-provider, half-the-hospitals, and higher rates health-care the Democrats have planned for them.

But the Professional left in the GraniteState still has their orders form DC.  And Golberg is quite correct when he says that a state run exchange would “maximize control.”  It would let the Federal Vampires across the threshold and into the business of every business in the state–for good.

The Democrats would like that.  Right now, since this is the law of the land–according to the lefts programmed talking points, they can’t by law do all the things to us they would like.   Did you notice how they insist this is the law but they have neglected to tell you that by law the Feds can’t enforce the employr mandate without a state exchange?  Devious little…

The bill’s prime sponsor and committee chair, Rep. Ed Butler, D-Hart’s Location, said that at this time the bill to lift the ban is no longer needed, although he said he supports a state-based exchange.

You want to know why the bill to lift the ban is no longer needed?  It helps that nothing works, that all the promise were lies, and that the program may get a furlough while they try to fix it.  But that’s not all of the story.  I don’t know the whole story.  It may be that there has not been any push-back from NH businesses who want more than a year off from the employer mandate–from those that want a permanent vacation from the choke-hold of ObamaCare.  Perhaps the left thinks they have won and it is only a matter of time.  That they will deal with the prohibition clause should the need become more dire.

Maybe it is also political.  For now, ObamaCare remains unpopular, dysfuncional, the product of an ill conceived rush to socialize medicine.  If the left tries to leap into the fray by shackling us to more Federal mandates now, right before the 2014 elections, it might stimulate too much talk, media buzz, stir up local challenges, and even cost them thier House majority; perhaps even the governship.

Whatever the motivation, HB544 must die, and in its wake rise up a protest, using the law as written, to force the left to confront the reality of our situation.  Without a state exchange taking money for ObamaCare may violate the Federal law (o-the-land) as well as state law.  Businesses wont have to comply.  And there may be more to this than just that.

Someone should look into that.  Maybe we need to file some lawsuits ourselves.  Make the left defend their falure in the open.  Make them admit that this law of the land can’t be enforced here without that thing they so desperately want that we should prevent at all cost–a State run exchange.

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