Posted on 07/23/2014 7:16:34 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
The nation’s No. 2 court on Tuesday slapped down the Obama administration in a 2-1 decision that could kill the president’s signature health-care law.
A less-prestigious federal appeals court issued a contradictory opinion the same day, but if the Supreme Court upholds the DC Circuit’s ruling, it will force Congress back to the drawing board to design a health law that is genuinely affordable, not just falsely titled “Affordable Care Act.”
The ruling in Halbig v. Burwell bars the federal government from handing out taxpayer-funded subsidies to people who buy ObamaCare plans in nearly two-thirds of the states — New Jersey and 35 others that refused to set up their own insurance exchanges.
Those subsidies took the sting out of being forced to buy pricey ObamaCare plans. If the ruling sticks, buyers in those states will have to pay full price, on average a whopping four times the subsidized price they paid this year.
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Not a chance. Both parties desire the power that comes from obamacare. It’s not going anywhere.
Or it will be replaced by single payer.
The administration will request a rehearing by the full court. The full court will agree and will uphold Obamacare since most of the members were appointed by Democrats. The case will be appealed to the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court will decline to take the case. And Obamacare will go on.
A schism has been opened. While by itself this internal conflict may not render the legislation inoperative, the already complicated execution of its provisions just became WAY more difficult and unwieldy. Going to take WAY more than the IRS to administer this monstrosity.
Defund and abolish the IRS. Repeal the Sixteenth Amendment. It is only one sentence:
“The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several States, and without regard to any census or enumeration.”
So few words. So much grief in its wake.
Both? Nobody in the GOP voted for it, and they keep trying to repeal it. That is not what someone who desires power from it would do.
How do they measure the prestige of a particular appeals court? I understand that the USSC would have the highest prestige, but aren't all others beneath it pretty much the same?
That may have been the intent, but as the adage goes, "The best laid plans of mice and men..." I think it's the Obamacare failures that have made single-payer less likely to happen now. Particularly since people will know that the designers of Obamacare will be the ones who will be designing single-payer too. Sort of like a restaurant owner's thinking they'll have a packed restaurant later by offering his patrons crappy food and service now. Isn't going to happen.
It would have been a whole lot easier for people to want single-payer, if Obamacare had been successful. Then its authors could claim, "If you think Obamacare is nice now, we've got something called 'single-payer' that you'll really like.'"
So, I think it's more likely that people will demand what they originally had back.
Liberals all claimed to want single payer government run medical system but it would take about 10 years. Bawney Fwank can be wuoted verbatim saying this. We’re half way there.
Also, I think this is the main reason all the dirty laundry concerning the VA was kept under wraps as long as possible. I believe that the dems constantly used that as a great example of govt run healthcare during the last election cycle, if not before.
The nice thing about your post is that you have some fight in you. The rest of the people posting on this thread are all experts telling us why we cannot get rid of Obamacare. What a bunch of useless losers they are. They may as well join the communist democrat party. They are no different.
“Both? Nobody in the GOP voted for it, and they keep trying to repeal it. That is not what someone who desires power from it would do.”
The risk of paying attention to politics is becoming a cynic. I am very cynical.
When a big vote comes up on an unpopular issue, that the political class wants passed, it’s common for the leadership, once enough votes are assured, to let those who are at risk, to vote against it.
John Boehner, among others, has stated it’s too late to repeal obamacare.
It went to the Supreme Court, and a “conservative” Chief Justice tortured the law to get a tax out of it, so it could stand.
There are a few members of Congress that would repeal the law, but they are in the decided minority, and not part of the GOPe.
A less-prestigious federal appeals court issued a contradictory opinion the same day, but if the Supreme Court upholds the DC Circuit’s ruling, it will force Congress back to the drawing board to design a health law that is genuinely affordable, not just falsely titled “Affordable Care Act.”
Nothing the federal government does is affordable. Prices and costs always go up when it’s involved.
37 states say no. You would think congress and obama and the courts would listen.
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