Who's to Blame for the Mass Cancellations?
Even NBC called out Obama's lie.
by Rod D. Martin
November 2, 2013
In a piece published yesterday at CNBC.com, Larry Kudlow opines that the liberal entitlement-state dream is crumbling, in direct consequence of the lies, the unworkability, and the manifest authoritarianism of Obamacare, summarized best in the mass cancellations of private health insurance policies this week.
Obama wants to blame insurance companies for that last bit, but thank God, NBC outed the President's team and the President's law as the ones responsible for the debacle. Kudlow lays it (to some degree) at the feet of the regulators, who drew the regs more tightly than the Obamacare law itself, deliberately trying to destroy as many private health plans as possible.
That's all true, but misses the bigger point: who gave these unelected mandarins such powers in the first place? Is the system really free when people you can neither name, know, nor hold responsible in any way can radically alter your life, beyond what your elected representatives have a…