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Trump was elected because of Russia and the electoral college. Like I said with Trump's corruption, plunging stock market, a huge increase in the deficit and loss of jobs across the country, The GOP and Trump handed the Democrats votes from the majority of Americans fed up with the GOP.
Trump will win the Bible Belt and not much else. Texas might even be competitive.
Most of the people I know who have ACA policies are self-employed, and early retirees. Are these Democrats? Anyway, as I said above, the ACA is much, much bigger than just health insurance policies. If it were actually repealed with no replacement, it would devastate the health industry in the US.
Nearly everyone with insurance has an ACA compliant plan.
The Individual Market is just a small part of the healthcare insurance market.
Any replacement that is not Guaranteed Issue is DOA in Congress. The people would come after Congress with pitchforks and most Congress Critters know this.
Other news outlets are now reporting that Judge O'Connor has declared the individual mandate unconstitutional and the rest of the Affordable Care Act invalid, but he has not blocked its continued operation." Trump's contribution to all this is to tweet that Nancy and Mitch need to fix it. Helpful contribution, that.
The surprise to many was not that O'Connor declared the individual mandate unconstitutional but his action on the remaining portion of the ACA - that even the Trump Administration supported (quietly, but supported). That was the bombshell that certainly will be appealed. At a minimum, it appears to be judicial activism gone wild for it appears to undercut last year's Congressional action. Congress intended to leave the remaining portions intact.
So, the state with the highest uninsured population in the USA....that won't even do e-verify to get rid of other "illegal stuff" now declared that Health Care for OUR OWN citizens is unconstitutional???
Truly Amazing. Texas is going to turn blue sooner than I thought....
When/if it gets to the Supremes I can't see Roberts ruling for it without the tax he insisted was the basis for the law.
Paxton used the consenting judges rulings against them, to argue the case.
A tax no longer exists. That is the only authorization under the 16th Amendment that Congress has control over. All other are 10th amendment issues.
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