Paul Conner writes for the Daily Caller about ObamaCare's really bad year. The 35 named instances that showed ObamaCare in a bad light include: legal challenges and rulings that the individual mandate was unconstitutional; House and Senate votes to repeal the law (the majority lost in the Senate); repeal of the onerous 1099 reporting requirement (ultimately good for small business but repeal means ObamaCare will add more to the deficit); CBO determines the law will cost $90 billion more than originally estimated; the waiver scandal reveals that HHS Secretary does not have legal authority to issue the waivers that are politically motivated (she "gave" herself the authority by regulation); studies show employers will drop employee healthcare as a result of ObamaCare; HHS abandons the CLASS Act due to its unworkability (this reduces the revenue needed to "pay for" ObamaCare in the early years meaning ObamaCare will dramatically add to the deficit); the IRS reveals it cannot collect many of the taxes required to "pay for" (ObamaCare's deficit hole grows even bigger); even stalwart liberals decide to back repeal of IPAB - one of the central cost-containing measures of ObamaCare (the law gets more expensive).
The list of ObamaCare's failures is stunning when read in their totality - kudos to Paul Conner for an article well done.
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