Op-Ed Get ready for an even bigger threat to Obamacare

Los Angeles Times ^ | June 30,2014 | JONATHAN TURLEY

[Hojczyk]

DC court rule against Obama…will never happen…they will come up with something

[Quick Shot]

What a poorly written article

[Izzy Dunne]

The administration's loss in the Hobby Lobby case is a bitter pill to swallow

Nope. No bias there.

[Izzy Dunne]

What a poorly written article

The article itself is not so bad. The summary has been gorched.

[jjotto]

I’m pretty sure the Court’s term is over until fall, not that an MSM ‘reporter’ would know anything about which they write.

[Izzy Dunne]

On the other hand: Halbig could allow an mass exodus from the program.

Hard to guess whether they meant "a mass exodus", or "en masse exodus".

[Izzy Dunne]

the Court’s term is over until fall

For USSC, that's true. For the D.C. Circuit court? I don't know.

[jurroppi1]

Funny, I thought the same thing.

[Liz]

Obamacare is a political blunder of Ceausescuian proportions.

[Buckeye McFrog]

By the time this comes before SCOTUS the entire Democrat Party may be down on their knees begging them to scuttle it.

[jjotto]

Good point. I may have spoke too soon.

[Steven Tyler]

Without subsidies, consumers in 34 states would face huge additional costs and, ...

....and Taxpayers will reap untold billions in Savings.

There, I fixed the report

[randita]

Yeah, I had to read portions of it twice and still was left guessing what it actually meant. This part is clear:

Without subsidies, consumers in 34 states would face huge additional costs and, because of those costs, potential exemptions from the law.

[ChildOfThe60s]

Without subsidies, consumers in 34 states would face huge additional costs and, ...

Subsidies do not make it more affordable, they simply shift higher costs to a different party.

So, a logical person would ask, how do huge increases equal "affordable"? Since liberals don't wonder this, what does that tell us about liberals?

[Opinionated Blowhard]

This is why I’m not that excited about Hobby Lobby. Its too little, too late. We have the monstrosity that is Obamacare. So closely-held businesses don’t need to provide free birth control. So what? Is that really a huge victory? No. Its carving out a small piece of an otherwise totalitarian law. Its being happy that we were not beaten while we were being raped. Obamacare has to go, but its looking more and more like it won’t because the feckless GOP has given up the fight and the courts don’t have the balls to overturn it.

[HereInTheHeartland]

“Obamacare is a political blunder of Ceausescuian proportions.”

So was Social Security in its day. But the Marxists of its day peed on the Constitution and got it implemented.

[Thank You Rush]

“”Obamacare is a political blunder of Ceausescuian proportions””

Could we be that lucky???? We could keep our fingers crossed.

[Liz]

[cmwy]

There is another case peculating up that challenges the ACA based on the origination of the penalty that was determined to not be a penalty but a tax coming out of the Senate. If that is not overturned it means the origination clause is meaningless with the Senate stripping any bill from the House and inserting any new tax.