deliver the care and the benefits and the opportunities that your families deserve. welcome to the journal editorial report, i m paul gigot. that was president obama wednesday breaking his silence over the growing veterans affairs scandal and promising to fix what s wrong. his remarks came a day after the v.a. inspector general said his office is now investigating possible misconduct at 26 facilities around the country. including a phoenix hospital where 40 veterans allegedly died before receiving care. as staff rigged record keeping to cover up the long wait times. joining the panel this week, wall street journal columnist, dan henninger, jason riley and joe rago. joe, says the president is he is going to get to the bottom of this, but the truth is, we know what happens at the v.a., because there have been numerous reports going to this question of waiting lines and cover-ups. what do we know? the truth is, we re already at the bottom of this. there has been reports
qualify for that. this is a permanent extension. and does this suggest, joe, that the individual mandate which the president has said was so crucial, we had to have it because you need that incentive, that stick to buy insurance and finance health care for everybody, does this mean that the individual mandate is essentially a fiction? i think it s definitely been eroded a lot. it s probably in hospice if you want to take a medical analogy and it s probably time for the death panel. this is by far the most unpopular part of this law and i think that helps explain why they have been delaying it and why they have been relaxing it. they did announce this week there s six million enrollees in obamacare. is that a real number? how firm is that? it s not very firm at all. i think the health and human services department is really harming its credibility with neutral observers. you know, they say we don t have any information when things are going wrong.
an election year strategy. they want to look as though they have problems themselves with the law and solutions for fixing it, knowing none of this will come into being. i think that s one of their political weaknesses because voters know that too. joe, let s turn to these court cases. first the hobby lobby religious liberty case at the supreme court. you read the oral argument, you know what the justices do. how do you think this will turn out? i think you probably had six justices, including steven briar, really discomforted by the arguments the administration was making here. we re talking about legitimate religious minority. they object to the owners of the hobby lobby craft stores object to a few forms of contraception. which they under the law are forced to provide for their employees. right. and the big weakness in the government s case is that there s a law that says when the
challenge to the law s birth control mandate. oral arguments in the so-called hobby lobby case came the same day that the administration announced another delay in the health care law giving consumers who claimed to have had difficulty signing up for insurance through the federal exchanges more time despite the official monday deadline. joining its panel this week, dan henninger, joe rago and kick strassel. kim, blet me go to you first. what does it say about whether there will be any deadline at all? that s just it. we don t think there will be any deadline at all. all you have to do to qualify for this is check a little box on the website that said you tried to get health care and you just didn t meet the deadline. and in terms of how long that will go on, the regulations say that at least for the moment indefinite. there is no final deadline in terms of when you no longer
challenge to the law s birth control mandate. oral arguments in the so-called hobby lobby case came the same day that the administration announced another delay in the health care law giving consumers who claimed to have had difficulty signing up for insurance through the federal exchanges more time despite the official monday deadline. joining its panel this week, dan henninger, joe rago and kick strassel. kim, blet me go to you first. what does it say about whether there will be any deadline at all? that s just it. we don t think there will be any deadline at all. all you have to do to qualify for this is check a little box on the website that said you tried to get health care and you just didn t meet the deadline. and in terms of how long that will go on, the regulations say that at least for the moment indefinite. there is no final deadline in terms of when you no longer qualify for that. this is a permanent extension. and does this suggest, joe, that the individual m