How the Obama administration just sued itself over Obamacare enforcement

Obama may face added backlash against his signature healthcare plan as leading CEOs are challenging Obama's "workplace wellness" programs. Although Obamacare has largely been popular with big businesses in the US, its interference with business practices are proving unpopular.

LOS ANGELES, CA (Catholic Online) - Big employers love Obamacare because they can send employees to the public exchanges without the hassle of managing health insurance policies for themselves. Despite any penalties, many employers find that Obamacare is a cheaper alternative to the status quo and have either dropped employee insurance coverage, or may do so over the next year.

Despite this, some employers are keeping insurance for their employees, and they're learning that Obamacare comes with a lot of strings attached. One of those attachments are "wellness programs."

Let us pray for those who govern, may they be guided by wisdom.

Wellness programs as explained by Obamacare include weight loss programs as well as stop smoking programs. The idea is that everyone saves money over the long term if employees are generally healthy and avoid poor habits.

Employers are allowed to reward workers who participate, and punish those that don't.

However, according to Reuters, the Obama administration has sued Honeywell International and at least two smaller companies for violating the Americans with Disabilities Act. The act holds that employers generally cannot give medical tests to employees as a condition of employment.

The agency suing the corporations is the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), and it is acting in direct contravention to the wishes of the Obama administration.

Now with several corporations preparing to fire back at the EEOC and Obamacare in general, the White House has gone on the defensive, asking the EEOC to back off its enforcement of the law in those cases which conflict with Obamacare.

The absurdity of the Obama administration suing itself in a conflict between enforcing the Americans with Disabilities Act and enforcing Obamacare reveals the byzantine and self-defeating nature of the expansive Obamacare program. It supports the theory that Obamacare is designed to fail, an intentional failing that will lead to socialized healthcare in the US.

It is unclear if the Obama administration can stop the EEOC, an agency which the administration oversees, from suing the Obama administration. It's a bizarre twist created by a law which is so lengthy that few people on Capitol Hill or in the administration have even bothered to read it.

Essentially, Obamacare was released into the wild in its beta state, without adequate testing. Now released, it requires patches and updates to be fixed. However, critical components of the law are so fundamentallty flawed, it is possible the entire law could eventually be scrapped and replaced with a new law in the years to come. It is as if Obamacare is the Windows 8 of healthcare.

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Business leaders are frowning at the law, with its many requirements and burdens. As they learn the details and complexities of the law, they too may be prepared to join the Conservative opposition to Obamacare -- which strangely enough, could have been Obama's plan all along. The present case cannot help but move us one step closer to a socialized system.

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