Posted on 07/23/2014 8:08:12 AM PDT by Kaslin
Either way. If there was a law with no specific intention, then there is no law, at all.
If they meant what the law says, then they should follow it As written.
Currently they are saying that the backup plan if the states didn't set up their own marketplace was for the federal government to set up a marketplace for them and thus would inherit the incentives provisions from the state plan.
The judge should just say that the written law means nothing and the actual way it should be interpreted is:
“everyone gets subsidized healthcare based on ‘from each according to his ability, to each according to his need’, at the discretion of president Obama, HHS, and the IRS”
because, de facto, that’s the way they’re running it.
If I like anchovies on my pizza and you like Italian sausage on your pizza and you eat half of my pizza but I eat only one bite of your pizza, then that means that illegal aliens are allowed free entry into the states anytime they want.
How do you not see that?
/sarc
Obamacare is like a pizza with crap for its topping
VA style healthcare for everyone, hurray!
We are now at the point where it is:
at the discretion of president Obama. Period
Notice I didn’t state the law as “at the discretion of the President”,
because, at some time in the future, maybe, there won’t be a democrat president, and they can’t leave the law interpreted that way then.
I liked what Krauthammer said last night. Everyone knows that the democrats intentionally made the bill to put pressure on the R governors to set up exchanges. They put incentives in the bill to force them to set up a state exchange. The incentive and they all know it, wrote it, read it and then voted for it, “Governors that hate their constituents enough to not set up an exchange do not get subsidies.” Plan, simple and diabolical and it back fired!!!
what contingency provision exactly?
A more accurate analogy is this: I have a coupon for half off the price of a sausage and pepperoni pizza at Domino’s. When I take that coupon to Pizza Hut, I will still pay full price for the pizza.
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