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Maybe RATs will now be concerned by activist judges. Heh heh!
Roberts will save Obamacare. He has no choice.
But Nancy and Chuck so wanted to turn it in to single payer.
The tax was eliminated but the credit still exists. We have numerous tax credits that are maintained in tax law.
The Democrat House will certainly seek to reimpose the tax but its DOA in the Senate.
Checkmate.
” 133 million Americans with preexisting conditions” really?
Trump is credited with MAGA.
Trump should also be credited with MOLE.
(Making Obama’s Legacy Extinct).
MAGA and MOLE go together, like white on rice. Can’t have one without the other.
And to think the dems destroyed affordable health care to pass the obummercare monstrosity.
Yep; the left/dems/progressives/marxists/etc destroys everything it touches. Everything.
Another promise kept. Listening GOPe? No, didn’t think so.
8 years wasted. Need better laws to prevent it from happening again.
How does it feel you moth_ _ f_ _kers?
Turn on the Hawaiian judge bat-signal!
Actually, probably don’t need him. Kavanaugh and Roberts will find a way to save it, if I’m right that both have been blackmailed.
The entire basis on which Roberts corruptly upheld Obamacare was that the penalty was a tax and thus covered under the taxing power. Without it, the taxing power does not apply and therefore the bill has no constitutional basis (not that it ever did.)
Obamacare was held to be constitutional as a tax, in 2012, on a 5-4 vote. Chief Justice Roberts held it was constitutional only because of its tax provision, and was joined by the four liberals who held that it was constitutional with or without the tax. This is called a “plurality” decision, and the only binding part of such a decision is what is agreed in BOTH the decision of the court (written by Roberts) AND in the concurring decision (agreed by the four liberals).
The tax was ended and, so, Obamacare is no longer constitutional. This is pretty clear.
The case will make its way to the Supreme Court and we can anticipate the the new lineup (with Scalia and Kennedy replaced by Gorsuch and Kavanaugh) will feature the same 4 to 4 among the liberals and conservatives, and that Roberts will again cast the tie-breaking vote. Who the hell knows what he will come up with, this time.
Supposing he continues to rule that Obamacare was only constitutional because of the now eliminated tax, the former, state-run system would be restored. Except that system is gone. Some equitable arrangement would have to be provided, such as all contracts currently in place are deemed legal, while states are allowed to re-invigorate their jurisdiction over health insurance at their pace providing they take no more than three years.
The Democrats will of course make re-invigorating Obamacare a focus of the 2020 elections. Perhaps they will honest this time and say if you like your plan, f your plan, and if you like your doctor, f your doctor. And, all that most working class people (you now, the deplorables) is that their out-of-pocket will increase by an average of $12,000 per year.
BTW this now closes the book on the last remaining legacy of Obama. It took us a while, but the body politic passed him like a gallstone.