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Obamacare Passes Its First Test
The New York Times ^ | October 8, 2010 | tobin Harshaw

Posted on 10/09/2010 7:33:19 AM PDT by cougar_mccxxi

Are you one of the 46 million Americans without health insurance? Well, you may not have that, uh, luxury for much longer. “A federal judge in Michigan on Thursday dismissed one of more than 15 legal challenges to the new health care law, becoming the first to rule that the law is constitutional,” reports The Times’s Kevin Sack. “The central question, which may ultimately fall to the Supreme Court, is whether the Commerce Clause of the Constitution gives Congress the authority to require citizens to obtain a commercial product, namely health insurance. Starting in 2014, the law will require most Americans to obtain health insurance …”

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: care; commerce; health; obamacare
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To: cougar_mccxxi
This should be interesting ... when it eventually goes up to the U.S.S.C. and if they can't come to a consensus, then what happens?
21 posted on 10/09/2010 8:47:49 AM PDT by nmh (Intelligent people recognize Intelligent Design (God).)
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To: Tribune7

yes, we have judge against judge.

What the U.S.S.C. could do is refuse to hear it and leave it up to each state to decide.


22 posted on 10/09/2010 8:49:13 AM PDT by nmh (Intelligent people recognize Intelligent Design (God).)
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To: Bronzy

Richard Lugar’s aid on health care contacted me after the Senator read my letter to his staff.

They are cogniscent of the fact that there are many thousands around the country who do not purchase health insurance on Religious conviction grounds.

Not a fan of Mr. Lugar, I am impressed that he is taking this matter seriously.

Also, the aid wrote to me that there is no teeth in the law to collect penalties (for not purchasing) from self-employed people.

He said many of the rules have not even been written yet, and that Mr. Lugar’s office is watching the rule-writing process very closely in an attempt to prevent the implantation of teeth.


23 posted on 10/09/2010 9:19:27 AM PDT by John Leland 1789 (Grateful)
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To: MichiganConservative

Is that you, Mr. Medved?


24 posted on 10/09/2010 10:55:08 AM PDT by Jeff Chandler (Judas Iscariot - the first social justice advocate. John 12:3-6)
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To: 4Speed

“Hey, its a Michigan Fed. Judge “

Another Clinton appointee?


25 posted on 10/09/2010 11:20:03 AM PDT by RoadTest (Religion is a substitute for the relationship God wants with you.)
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To: cougar_mccxxi

Oh wow, one Federal District Court Judge says this mandate is constitutional! It would be funny if the MSM would pleasure themslves this much discussing the several other Federal District Court Judges who said the states do have legal standing to challenge this crap.

This will eventually get to the Supreme Court. The federal government will never be able to justify that this is allowed under the Commerce Clause, or the Power to Tax.


26 posted on 10/09/2010 11:33:54 AM PDT by Artcore
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To: SERKIT

I like your thinking!


27 posted on 10/09/2010 11:59:24 AM PDT by cougar_mccxxi
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To: cougar_mccxxi

>Starting in 2014 not having healthcare will be a felony, NOT civil disobedience.

Well then, it looks like we’ve got an outer time-limit on when the Second Civil war is going to kick off: 2014.
I mean honestly, how many people are going to think “Hell, I’m unemployed* and can barely afford food... if I’m going to be a criminal it may as well be for killing some of these bureaucratic bastards.”

*employment will not recover until government rules, regulations, and taxes are relaxed/decreased (manufacturing & refining are in particularly bad shape) and the government stance is such that an increase in those hardships is likely.


28 posted on 10/09/2010 1:20:31 PM PDT by OneWingedShark (Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
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