Former President Bill Clinton, who helped sell the Affordable Care Act to the public, broke with President Obama just a bit recently, saying the incumbent should “honor the commitment that the federal government made to those people.” In this case, “those people” are individuals in the private insurance market with health care insurance plans that don’t meet new federal standards, and as a result are being canceled. The move throws the implementation of the Affordable Care Act into further uncertainty. But instead of thinking: “Hey, didn’t I just get done unraveling Bill Clinton’s conserva-Dem triangulations from the 1990s, the Defense of Marriage Act and the Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell policy?”, Obama totally caved.
LAWBREAKING IS BAD, MMMM’KAY, SO LAWYERS SHOULDN’T DO IT