Too Clever

 Tevi Troy, in Commentary magazine, examines the effects of Obamacare. An excerpt:

By excluding the input and oversight of the vast majority of the nation’s elected representatives, the bill turned the American system inside out. The legislation would rely on the administrative state to write and execute much of the policy details of Obamacare. For instance, the law contains more than 1,000 mentions of the phrase “the secretary shall”—the secretary in this case being the unelected head of the Department of Health and Human Services. In other words, to avoid negotiation and controversy, the authors in Congress effectively took power away from Congress and gave it to the executive-branch bureaucracy. This passing of the buck from Congress to the administrative agencies would have multiple negative ramifications.