Posted on 11/02/2012 7:45:01 PM PDT by Kolath
Yesterday, the attorney general of Oklahoma amended that state’s ObamaCare lawsuit. The amended complaint asks a federal court to clarify the Supreme Court’s ruling in NFIB v. Sebelius, but it also challenges an IRS rule that imposes ObamaCare’s employer mandate where the statute does not authorize it: on employers in the 30 to 40 states that decline to implement a health insurance “exchange.”
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1. How many states have officially stated (via legislative laws and state amendments) that they will not participate in the exchanges?
2. How many states will be voting to deny the exchanges (via petition ballot) this November?
3. At what point does the bill fall apart when enough states say "no" to the exchanges?
Roberts has made it clear he is not going to buy the central argument of this appeal - unless/until there is a more conservative SC, the attempt is a waste of taxpayer money.
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