Posted on 02/14/2015 6:50:51 AM PST by RoosterRedux
In a few weeks, ObamaCare's second open enrollment season will close. Unfortunately for the president, the law may not live to see a third open enrollment thanks to an increasingly hostile public and a case before the Supreme Court that could render a major part of the law unconstitutional.
According to Gallup, public approval of ObamaCare dropped to a record low of 37% at the end of 2014. The latest RealClearPolitics average of polls shows that 51% of Americans oppose the law.
That shouldn't be a surprise. For a full year, individuals have had to deal with canceled plans, premium shocks, higher deductibles and narrow networks of health care providers all thanks to ObamaCare.
Forty-six percent of Americans now describe health costs as a "hardship," up from 36% in 2013.
Those who purchased coverage through ObamaCare's exchanges will get a lot more ornery come tax time this spring. They'll have to fill out a new and extraordinarily complicated form the instruction booklet runs 21 pages that directs them to do things like "add allocated amounts across all allocated policies with amounts for non-allocated policies from Forms 1095-A, if any, to compute a combined total for each month."
After enduring this nightmare, about 3.4 million people roughly half of those who received government subsidies to purchase insurance in the exchanges last year will have to pay back part of those subsidies because they misreported their incomes, according to tax preparer H&R Block.
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Two things:
1. That is not the issue in this court case.
2. The Supreme Court ruled that Obamacare is a Tax. As stupid as that ruling was it is nevertheless the law.
This case, the one that should doom Obamacare is about the rebates flowing from the Federal Treasury to the States that have not set up there own Exchanges. Those rebates are not legal. For states that have set up their own Exchanges those rebates are legal.
That doesn't mean there are not possible Constitutional challenges that could be brought against Obamacare. But that is not the case in question.
I'm not holding my breath either. I fully expect the current GOP leadership to come to the rescue. But I will be very surprised if we the Supremes rule in favor of the Obama Administration. The law is unambiguous. That should be good enough for at least a 5 to vote.
If it was a tax, then the law is unconstitutional because the law started as a senate bill.
So no matter how you slice it congress had no constitutional authority to pass this crap sandwich.
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