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Repeal of ObamaCare can't come soon enough -- as several damaging provisions are set to take effect this year.
For starters, it has effectively stopped the construction of physician-owned hospitals throughout the country.
Of course, patients may have trouble finding not just a hospital, but a doctor. A Physician's Foundation survey revealed that 40 percent of doctors plan to "drop out of patient care in the next one to three years." Sixty percent said ObamaCare will "compel them to close or significantly restrict their practices to certain categories of patients" -- typically those on Medicare or Medicaid.
Health reform will force many folks to give up their current insurance, too
Other measures kicking in are petty -- but punitive. For example, people can no longer use tax-free Health Savings Accounts on basic over-the-counter drugs. Instead, they must pay for a doctor's appointment -- and then get a prescription for a pricier pharmacist-dispensed drug.
And rulings from Federal Courts are NOT normally a straight ticket to the SCOTUS. Especially rulings by judges in good standing.
Actually there is no such thing as an automatic appeal to the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court picks the cases it wants to hear, and ignores the rest, so if the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals affirms the lower courts ruling and the Supreme Court refuses to hear it, it's over.
I suppose the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals could file a writ of certorai and ask the Supreme Court for guidance, but that would be taking the weeny way out.
The judge's standing isn't relevant either. Anyway, he cited US Supreme Court rulings, and the Supreme Court rarely reviews its own rulings and almost never overturns its own rulings (although it did twice concerning slavery and race related rulings).
Obamacare clearly violates the interstate commerce clause. There's no getting around that and still maintain private "health insurance" companies.
The only option would be to create an Health Care Administration (just like the Social Security Administration) and levy a tax on everyone who would pay into an Health Care Trust Fund (just like the Social Security Trust Fund), and then the Health Care Administration would distribute "benefits" similar to way the Social Security Administration does.
Of course, everyone with half a brain can see where that will end up.
Congress will raid the Health Care Trust Fund (just like it raided the Social Security Trust Fund) and Congress will spend every single penny in the Health Care Trust Fund (just like it spent every single penny in the Social Security Trust Fund) and then Congress will very generously leave in its place a beautifully decorated IOU crafted by skilled artisans (just like it left IOUs in the Social Security Trust Fund) and then within a few short years, the Health Care Trust Fund will be insolvent (just like Social Security and the Social Security Trust Fund).
And then everyone's health care benefits will be cut, just like everyone's Social Security benefits will be cut.
Sure, take a gander and try to understand the significance of the data.
Stat of the Week: The Uninsured in the United States - Kaiser Health Reform (http://healthreform.kff.org/scan/2011/january/stat-of-the-week-the-uninsured-in-the-united-states.aspx - broken link)
Wait...are we talking about a lazer focus on jobs again....you know those "shovel ready" ahh I mean...well you know...
Now we are going to pivot and focus on jobs....after 2 years of saying this...now obama is going to shift....
Sorrry bob, but the American people have heard all the wanted about jobs and the multi billion stimuls was suposed to load up America with jobs....well were are they? Talk about a waste of time....
Thank you for saying it as it really is, you the know his sheeple believe every bit of bull crap he throws at them, it is ridiculolus, most of us already have Obama's numbers and then well, others take their sweet time understanding what is happening. Obama is about saving face, his!
How the D's voted will be duly noted by their constituents - especially those constituents who were against Obamacare.
And this is exactly the reason why the R's went down this road .. voting records have a knack for getting in the way when re-election time comes around.
There will be even less Dems in the Senate after 2012 as a result of this most recent Senate vote.
If this bill is SO amazing and is going to help the millions and millions of people that do not have health care. (minus the illegals and various religons and of course the 700+ other waivers)
Why is it not implemented RIGHT NOW?
People still will not have insurance and they are still dying....right....
Another big waste of time in government--after constant accusations by the R's that Reid wouldn't put the bill up for a vote in the Senate because it would fail, he did just that. The votes fell straight down party lines. There was absolutely no surprise here, but it was a massive waste of everyones times. Can we all get back to work on the economy now? We knew from the start this would be decided by the SCOTUS, and that's where it's headed.
The good news--the D's worked with the R's to remove the tax reporting required for small business--it was a very reasonable move. Let's see if the R's are that willing to extend the same spirit of compromise as well in the future.
OK, well that was a royal waste of time and taxpayer money. Can they start working on issues that people actually care about? Only 8% of Americans considered HC top priority. Or are they going to start talking about making English an official language?
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