Posted on 12/19/2011 9:31:35 AM PST by Libloather
Supreme Court sets aside three days for healthcare arguments
By Sam Baker - 12/19/11 11:40 AM ET
The Supreme Court will hear arguments on President Obama's healthcare law over a three-day span in late March.
The schedule further confirms the universal expectation that the court will issue a ruling on the healthcare law next June, at the height of the 2012 campaign.
The Supreme Court will begin on March 26 with one hour of arguments on whether it can reach a decision on the health law before 2014. There is a possibility that a separate federal law prevents the courts from ruling until the law's individual mandate has taken effect.
On March 27, the justices will hear two hours of arguments on the core question of whether the mandate is unconstitutional.
And on March 28, the court will hear arguments on two issues: how much, if any, of the law's other provisions can be upheld if the mandate is unconstitutional; and whether the health law's Medicaid expansion is constitutional.
The court will not hear any other cases during that three-day span.
Say what?
Bull Shiite!!!
There have been plenty of laws overturned before implementation and I would argue the law is in fact IN EFFECT, as states are now taking part of some of the $100+ millions to set systems and processes.
Addtionally, there are ads all over the air that tell us all about this “wonderful” program.
The last Congress confiscated monies from Americans to implement this.
So, no, the SCOTUS does not have to wait to rule on a law that is currently having an effect.
We have standing.
There is an injurious effect for the court to rule on.
They damn well better and quickly.
Every day these clowns don’t do their job, the Republic is suffering. Real damage is being done to the healthcare system.
At this point, we will never recover what’s been lost since the bill was made law.
Thank you, Judicial Branch, for dragging your lazy feet.
Actually, I think it works to our advantage that this isn’t decided before the election. This will definitely give us the leverage to get out our voters.
Don’t make sense, that is exactly why it is going to the Surpreme Court.
I vaguely remember hearing something like this awhile back.What does it mean?
Why agree to grant cert. if they’re just going to turn around and say that they can’t make a decision until 2014?
Once again the SC shows it is worthless. Why all this time delay on something that is destroying America and is totally unconstitutional.
The court always rules on cases prior to adjournment in June. Anyone who thinks they will not rule by then does not understand how the USSC works.
If some particular ruling makes the others moot, they may not rule on those.
The court always rules on cases prior to adjournment in June. Anyone who thinks they will not rule by then does not understand how the USSC works.
If some particular ruling makes the others moot, they may not rule on those.
SCOTUS will make a ruling of some kind by the time that they adjourn in June. But that ruling could be that the issue of the individual mandate is not “ripe” yet.
Obamacare must be gone now, no later than February, 2013. And the law needs to be set aside while the courts ponder.
As De Galle[sp?] said in 1944 outside Paris"Here I am and here I stay." It almost caused Rosevelt to relieve Eisenhower because he hated De Galle an did not want him to have any signficant role in liberating Paris. Same principle applies to obamacare. Our mistake was not in taking to the streets and raising hell to prevent its passage.
No matter what the SC does, obamacare is simply not sustainable. It will cause the entire health care system to implode. It is cost prohibitive, it will result in rationing, and below cost reimbursements will force providers out of business or into cash only practices.
That was its intended purpose.
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