Obama admin attempting another Congressional end-around on ObamaCare defect

posted at 1:55 pm on November 16, 2011 by Ed Morrissey

Under ObamaCare, the IRS becomes the arbiter of health-insurance acceptability. Now Barack Obama needs the IRS to rescue ObamaCare entirely, thanks to a massive legislative defect that the President has no hope of rectifying in the new Congress. Thanks to sloppy legislative work, the PPACA’s subsidies to taxpayers won’t apply in states that refuse to create exchanges — which means that the states have a clear mechanism to block ObamaCare’s implementation.

That is, unless the IRS just bypasses Congress and corrects the law:

[quote] The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act offers “premium assistanceâ€