Sunday, December 15, 2013
The same 2 stories discussed in the last blog continued to
dominate the news. To these were added
the death of Mandela, and the freezing of most of the East Coast last week, and
the Middle East this week.
1.
The continuing sage of
Obama care.
2.
The continuing dance with
the Iranians.
3.
The Cold spell
4.
The death of Mandela
Obama Care
I did not fully understand the reason for the Atomic
Option. Besides making it possible to
nominate and appoint Obama appointees, the nuclear option clears the way to
pack the DC Circuit Court of appeals which is defined as follows in the
Wikipedia:
While it has the smallest geographic jurisdiction of any of the United States courts of
appeals, the D.C. Circuit, with eleven active judgeships, is arguably the most
important inferior appellate court. The court is given the responsibility of
directly reviewing the decisions and rulemaking
of many federal independent agencies of the United
States government based in the national capital, often
without prior hearing by a district court. Aside from the agencies whose statutes
explicitly direct review by the D.C. Circuit, the court typically hears cases
from other agencies under the more general jurisdiction granted to the Courts
of Appeals under the Administrative Procedure Act. Given the broad areas over
which federal agencies have power, this often gives the judges of the D.C.
Circuit a central role in affecting national U.S. policy and law.[1]
It has been the path to the Supreme Court for Roberts, Scalia,
Thomas, Ginsburg and Kagan. Packing the court makes the appellate process for
challenges to the Obama Care excesses so much more difficult.
In the meantime, the Obama front end seems to have improved
to the point of accepting information and probably storing it without too many
errors. Unfortunately, the back end
(database management, searches through the various government departments for
the status of an applicant in order to evaluate whether he/she receives government
support) seem totally undeveloped, or developed so poorly that they have been
uncoupled from the front end.
As a result, applications are not being routed to Insurance
Companies electronically, and money is not being accepted to seal the deal with
these companies. On January 1st,
millions will be out of insurance and the next and first serious crisis will
occur as some start dying because of that law.
Cathleen Sibelius has asked the companies to permit late
payments, permit use of doctors which are no longer under contract with the
companies, and accept people who simply claim to have insurance. We’ll see how that works out.
The continuing dance with the Iranians.
To be updated.
The Cold spell
To be updated.
The death of Mandela
To be updated.
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