How will the Supreme Court rule on Obamacare exchanges?

[NeverEndingMe]

were you able to sign up for more welfare today?

obama be calling, slaves must be running

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[miles]

I'm guessing Roberts will cave.

 

[JohnnySavage]

I predict they will disallow the subsidies in the states that refused to set up their own exchanges.

It's impossible to predict what effect that will have on the law as a whole.

Probably, those non-compliant states will rush to set up their own exchanges. Woe be unto any politician that takes away an existing benefit from the proles.

 

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[Paendragon]

What he's really saying is, it isn't the court's job to legislate, that's a congressional responsibility, so we should only concern ourselves with the law.

I understand that. I almost want SCOTUS to rule his way just to see what the GOP would do. Would they really want to screw over that many potential voters?

This is politics, remember. And the states this would affect are overwhelmingly red states . . . with the added bonus of Florida, Ohio, and North Carolina in the mix, which are notorious swing states. We're just one year away from a big election year.

 

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[Sean Renaud]

Who knows, but one cannot be everything to everybody. Democrats don't try to do this, and it seems a majority of Americans want Obamacare repealed. Most didn't want it to start with. I think we have to live within the Constitution or amend it. I think that goes for any President, any Party as well.

What about Obamacare is unconstitutional? So far every challenge has been completely bogus on it's face.

 

[Wrong Element]

I can't make a prediction. The case has absolutely no merit, and yet an appeals court bought it.

Like Scalia sez, WE DONT KNOW WHAT CONGRESS INTENDED, WE KNOW WHAT THEY WROTE.

Actually we do know, since those who wrote the law and voted for or against its passage are, you know, still around.

The argument being made now -- that the language of the ACA forbids subsidies for insurance purchased on the federal exchanges -- is one that literally NO ONE made at the time the legislation was being considered. Well over 200 members of Congress voted against the ACA. If this is such a slam dunk for our completely apolitical Court, don't you think one of them might have mentioned this in 2010?

It didn't come up at the time because everyone in Congress knew what they were voting on, and everyone, including those who hate the ACA, knew that the federal exchanges were covered.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

I can't make a prediction. The case has absolutely no merit, and yet an appeals court bought it.






Actually we do know, since those who wrote the law and voted for or against its passage are, you know, still around.

The argument being made now -- that the language of the ACA forbids subsidies for insurance purchased on the federal exchanges -- is one that literally NO ONE made at the time the legislation was being considered. Well over 200 members of Congress voted against the ACA. If this is such a slam dunk for our completely apolitical Court, don't you think one of them might have mentioned this in 2010?

It didn't come up at the time because everyone in Congress knew what they were voting on, and everyone, including those who hate the ACA, knew that the federal exchanges were covered.

They got in a hurry and failed to put it on paper. If it aint written down it didn't happen, its the motto of every government agency.

 

[Ulaven_Demorte]

Who knows, but one cannot be everything to everybody. Democrats don't try to do this, and it seems a majority of Americans want Obamacare repealed. Most didn't want it to start with. I think we have to live within the Constitution or amend it. I think that goes for any President, any Party as well.

You keep saying that a majority of Americans want the ACA repealed. This is simply not true. A large number of people that don't like and never wanted the ACA feel that way because of the influence that the GOP had on the law. They wanted and still want single payer, not a return to the status quo from before the ACA.

It's disingenuous of you to suggest otherwise. It is however, completely in character for you to do so.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

Who knows how ObamaCare was put together, no one was allowed near the kitchen and no one ever read the list of ingredients or the recipe. So now the court is in the position of trying to save ObamaCare, with nothing to work with. A state exchange is not a federal exchange. The whole court heard Gruber's confessions, and know the whole deal was a conspiracy against Congress and the People. Obama was too clever and Gruber's lip prints are on O's pecker..

 

[Adre]

As usual, Thomas could not think of a single question to ask. Imagine, a lawyer who does not talk.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

As usual, Thomas could not think of a single question to ask. Imagine, a lawyer who does not talk.

Thomas rarely asks questions. Its unusual when he does.

 

[Adre]

Thomas rarely asks questions. Its unusual when he does.

2006 to be precise.

 

[BotanyBoy]

What about Obamacare is unconstitutional? So far every challenge has been completely bogus on it's face.

He can't say but he doesn't like it so....unconstitutional. LOL

 

[RobDownSouth]

As usual, Thomas could not think of a single question to ask. Imagine, a lawyer who does not talk.

I think back to former Labor Secretary Robert Reich's prescient story.

He was taking Introduction to Civil Rights Law at Harvard Law. A small class with only 12 students. In the class were Bill Clinton, Hillary Rodham, Robert Reich and Clarence Thomas.

"I raised my hand every time the professor asked a question, and inevitably gave the wrong answer. Hillary Rodham raised her hand too, and inevitably gave the right answer. Bill Clinton sat in the back and cracked jokes. Clarence Thomas just sat there, never said a word and glowered at the professor".

Quite a bit of star power in that one class, no?

 

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[Sean Renaud]

Yes we who lived through his bullshit knew it all along.

I love how you have me ignore because I don't fit any of the standard factors. What is it, specifically about the ACA that is Unconstitional. Point it out please?

 

[Adre]

Why would he have to ask a question if he understood all of the issues involved? The man can read.

Nice try, petunia, but eight other justices who can read and actually stay awake during proceedings also make the effort to ask questions. Because, you know, they give a shit.

 

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[BotanyBoy]

I love how you have me ignore because I don't fit any of the standard factors. What is it, specifically about the ACA that is Unconstitional. Point it out please?

He can't

He just wants to stamp his feet and keep pretending.

 

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[BotanyBoy]

The ACA in it's present form is not the ACA that Roberts so generously declared to be constitutional, its Obama's 40 plus unilateral amendments to the ACA that is in question, and most likely unconstitutional on their face.

So what I'm hearing is....it's not actually unconstitutional.

 

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