Posted on 06/29/2015 5:25:49 AM PDT by Sean_Anthony
Higher costs, less care, fewer choices. And lots more federal control
The recent Supreme Court ruling on health insurance subsidies means they upheld the “stupidity of the American people” (as Jonathan Gruber would say, and has), and for the third time the Court stretched the law instead of interpreting the law.
How the Court arrived at this 6-3 decision has baffled many observers, and the ruling opinion written by Justice Roberts stuns those of us who believe that certain words matter, as Rob said last week.
But the words of Justice Antonio Scalia in his the dissenting opinion had plenty of meaning:
“Having transformed two major parts of the law, the Court today has turned its attention to a third. The Act that Congress passed makes tax credits available only on an ‘Exchange established by the State.’ This Court, however, concludes that this limitation would prevent the rest of the Act from working as well as hoped. So it rewrites the law to make tax credits available everywhere. We should start calling this law SCOTUScare.”
(Excerpt) Read more at canadafreepress.com ...
Frankly, I’m gonna stop saying SCOTUS from now on. The way it has been ruling, it deserves the name SCROTUS.
ScotusCare will crash. It’s already not working. The only thing to save it will be massive new taxes or new forced involvement laws from the Congress. With Boehner/McConnel in charge, that’s a real possibility, but those subsidies only dealt with the monthly premium. They don’t deal with the huge deductibles which are so steep that people really don’t have health care. They’ll have to pay out of pocket except in catastrophic/extreme care when these will kick in.
Which is what younger folks were always saying anyway. If we want to buy an ultra cheap catastrophic plan, that’s our business.
Roberts is a Harvard moron, which makes him worse than the average idiot. I wonder how many conservative friends he has after shooting his rulings down their throats. I bet he hangs with the same crowd as kagan, and Ginsburg. I can’t imagine anyone else besides a liberal truly would want to hang with him. I mean really. His rulings are truly an assault upon his brethren.
Blackmail. Does anyone actually believe that the FBI quit amassing blackmail files on public officials?
“SCROTUS”?
Because it has none?
To be crude, all bag and no balls.
And THAT is the US Supreme Court.
They honestly BELIEVE they speak for the citizens of the United States.
Does any ONE of them know the price of a cup of coffee in downtown Podunk? Does a single one of them know or interact with average American citizens in any way?
They live in their rarefied and artificial bubble thinking they actually KNOW what the issues mean to Americans.
They are SO politicized in everything they do that they are nothing in the least LIKE what a Supreme Court OUGHT to be!
In my lifetime, I never would have thought you could pack so much duplicity, so much deceit and so much evil in 61.4 square miles of land mass.
We’d be better off declaring in a blighted area and demolishing the whole thing.
Are we sure he didn't say SCOTUSscare?
All of the Justices are Ivy League or near Ivy League (Stanford) educated, particularly for their law degrees. Harvard and Yale dominate. No one attended a state university or regional private university law school. There are no justices who belong to a protestant denomination. All adhere to either the Catholic or Jewish faith. There may be skin and gender diversity on the court but they all belong to the elitist Ivy League urban class that rules the USA.
The hubrus of SCOTUS hiding behind judicial immunity is intolerable. Divinig the thoughts of Congresscritters who couldn’t read the bill in order to ‘interpret’ their intent is beyond implausible. It’s unbefrackinglievable.
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