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This made me laugh. Here you have a President that is being called a Constitutional law Professor with the worst SCOTUS record in the history of the United States. What is hilarious is he can't figure out why all his orders are getting shot down by SCOTUS so his reaction? lash out at the highest court in the land and call them incompetent. For Christ's sake this guy is a complete moron. No wonder our kiddo's don't have a clue about what is going on when the graduate college.
This made me laugh. Here you have a President that is being called a Constitutional law Professor with the worst SCOTUS record in the history of the United States. What is hilarious is he can't figure out why all his orders are getting shot down by SCOTUS so his reaction? lash out at the highest court in the land and call them incompetent. For Christ's sake this guy is a complete moron. No wonder our kiddo's don't have a clue about what is going on when the graduate college.
If they rule against it (they won't), how are the republicans, who tried to stop this fiasco passed in the dead of night, responsible. No, the mess is all yours, dems, all yours.
Because the people losing their healthcare are going to blame the people they see as standing in the way of them having it.
I think that is what will probably happen. No matter how ill-conceived the wagon, you do what is necessary to keep it from sailing off of a cliff. Re-design can take place under HHS Sec'y Bobby Jindal in 2017.
I liken this to the situation in Iraq. The previous admin created a mess, but the solution was not precipitous withdrawal and setting the stage for ISIS. A responsible admin or congress has to deal with the mistakes of predecessors in a responsible manner.
On one hand he says that the case should not have even been taken by the SCOTUS. On the other hand he recommends a "one sentence provision" to fix the problem. Which is it?
One of Obamacare’s authors said in 2012 that states that don’t set up their own Obamacare exchanges can’t offer residents subsidies, throwing heavy weight behind the argument that the billions in subsidies to federally-run exchanges are illegal.
I can only wonder if Obama even read ACA before he put it out there. He was a lawyer and a professor, and assuming he actually read it, apparently he missed "established by the state". Can only wonder how many eyes were on these four words and didn't catch it.
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Opponents of the law claim it allows health insurance premiums to be subsidized only in states that set up exchanges, or online marketplaces. If the court agrees, those subsidies can't continue to flow to residents in at least 34 states that use a federally operated exchange.
Now Obama wants to poo-poo the legal wording as a "mistake" and chastises SCOTUS for adhering to the law and their petty interpretation (according to him) of "established by the state". This not something he can fix with a pen by editing ACA at will.
Read the article and see the devastation that could result if Obama loses this one.
Apart from the health care considerations, this is going to be a landmark decision in terms of law. If the Congress can write plain language such as "through an Exchange established by a State” and the President can overturn it because it turns out to be not convenient, we no longer have Article I, Section 1 of the Constitution in place:
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Originally Posted by US Constitution
All legislative Powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States, which will consist of a Senate and House of Representatives.
If Article I, section 1 becomes null and void, we have lost our form of government.
I'm not sure what the insurance companies will do if over half of their participants drop out over night. I don't see how they can handle it.
Raise the rates for everyone else?
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