Sounds like a lifeline for Obamacare, not opponents
It’s not so complicated. Congress can pass legislation that transfers funds back to Medicaid where most of the recipients came from to begin with.
The real losers are health insurance companies that planned on subsidies to grow their coverage. People can live with that outcome.
This is why Republicans must get behind Sasse's plan.
Sasse's plan acts as a giant COBRA for up to 18 months until the markets can work its magic again. It does NOT replace or extend Obamacare.
If the mandate is struck down, Democrats are going to parade the victims around and we all have to listen to their sob stories. And they're going to stage agit-prop rallies in state capitals that have a Republican Govenor to pressure them to cave.
At the hearing, President Obama’s Solicitor General, Donald Verrilli, argued that if the Supreme Court rules that Obamacare’s federal exchange subsidies are illegal, “I don’t think it’s possible to say that there would be no harm. The tax credits will be cut off immediately and you will have very significant, very adverse effects immediately for millions of people in many states in their insurance markets.”
This whole argument is irrelevant. Chief Justice John Roberts said, “It is not our job to protect the people from the consequences of their political choices.”
This sounds ominously like ownership of 0bamcare could very well be transferred from the deceitful democrats to the inept republicans.
The problem here is they would be adopting a stay to prevent harm to some people, but they would have to make their action immediate to actually not harm the petitioners.
Pretty sorry when the biggest argument for an unconstitutional act is that, “Fixing it will cause harm”, while ignoring the harm from so many unconstitutional acts.
The people in this country are so screwed by their Marxist overlords.
* First they force people into insurance they don’t want, don’t need, or lost.
* Then they make it look like a “choice” during an open enrollment.
* Then they close the enrollment even though they forced people into the insurance they lost, didn’t want, or didn’t have.
* Then they force people into Medicaid, which harms families by forcing their families to pay back medical care they were forced into to begin with.
* Then they slap a Band-Aid onto the problem by handing out “free money” they’re not authorized to do.
* Then they change the law to help the insurance companies that are screwing the people to screw them some more with rate hikes that are required by unneeded care mandated in that very same law.
* Then the people are forced into a corner where they won’t be able to pay for the insurance they were forced into and couldn’t pay for by an administration who passed the very law that they’re saying is doing exactly that.
It must be good to be part of the commie bastard pig-lipped lawmaker ring.