Federal Court Says Obamacare Subsidies Illegal -- what next?

A federal appeals court handed down a ruling this morning that could be problematic for ObamaCare. As just reported, “A judicial panel in a 2-1 ruling said such subsidies can be granted only to those people who bought insurance in an ObamaCare exchange run by an individual state or the District of Columbia—not on the federally run exchange HealthCare.gov.” You can read the entire appeal here.

was the “Origination Clause”.

You mean where the House sent Reid a bill, he stripped every word out of it, inserted 2500 pages of zerocare? I’ve always wondered why that was able to stand.

Exactly!
It can only stand until someone with standing works it though the Courts and up to the SCOTUS. Then is when the Origination Clause SHTF. That is precisely why nobama and dingy harry wanted to be able to load the Court (semi-nuke option - simple majority in confirming Fed Judges), to slow down the court process.

Remember the SCOTUS can not initiate, even though they may well see the fly in the ointment, it has to come from someone affected and up through the Court system.

So you think that was Roberts’ real intention, to let zerocare die a full, silver slug thru the brainpan via the courts than just ‘murder’ it, in the eyes of the RATS?

How will SCOTUS handle how Reid illegally co-opted the House Bill and ensconced zerocare in it? Nuke the whole thing?

AH1952 and I had a local case go to SCOTUS where O’Connor said she would have found for the plaintiff except all the retro mess it would make if she did.

Yes that is what I think. Constitutional politics is chess not checkers. I know it was cool to bash Roberts, but I prefer to look below the obvious surface as to why things are done and think he did give nobamacare a poison pill.

The SCOTUS was limited to address the specifics of the case before it. They had no way to call it on Origination, because the question was the Constitutionality of Fee vs Tax. I found it curious that Roberts would step in and “specifically” say it had to be a Tax, even though the dem Congress was adamant it should be called a fee (for political purposes). The dems think we are as stupid as they and only look at the surface and they were maybe perplexed but happy it was not killed outright.

The SCOTUS does have the power to look at intent and should be able to see the way reid gutted and restuffed a Bill just to be able “claim” it was Originated in the House. I think the dems, and maybe the GOP as well when they were in the majority, played fast and loose with things like this which only became known when it was seriously challenged in Court. Now, if somehow the SCOTUS became 5 to 4 liberal, the dems would definitely get away with it, because the liberals care less about what is strictly constitutional (more of that ol “end justifies the means” thingy).

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