John S. Wilson: One Year Later and the Health Care Law Is Still Sick
By HHR | March 25th, 2011 | Category: Featured, Heathcare, Politics | 2 comments
In case you missed it, this week marked the 1st year anniversary of the signing of the Affordable Care Act. The last 365 have been like going back to freshman year of high school all over again. Back then you expected the work would be much harder, the girls much prettier, and the parties that much better. However, the reality set in: the work was relative; girls same as last year; and the parties overrated.
And so goes the implementation of the Affordable Care Act. Some people love it, others hate it. A big part of the problem is the Obama Administration’s failure at packaging this farm of a law into a user-friendly message that everyone gets. This has a disturbingly high number of folks still not knowing what it is — and chances are they felt that way last year too.
Roughly over half of states have joined together in an ‘Amazing Race‘ to the courthouse to strike down the law. In Florida, federal judge Roger Vinson ruled the individual mandate in the Act, which requires citizens to either purchase health insurance or pay a fee, unconstitutional. In fact, that’s what the law’s critics are banking on: the mandate being a legislative overreach that leads to repeal.









