Posted on 06/28/2012 12:15:27 PM PDT by RightCenter
...Roberts’s historic hand on the scale Thursday was the only way to preserve a central role for private insurers in American health care in the years ahead. In this sense, Roberts’ epic choice is therefore not only small “c” conservative as a matter of judicial temperament but economically conservative to boot. What the chief justice has done is nothing less than save shortsighted partisans bent on overturning Obamacare from themselves. As I and others have long argued, a successful drive to overturn the Affordable Care Act, combined with a continued surge in the ranks of the uninsured, would almost certainly have put America on a path to a single-payer system, about whose constitutionality there has never been any doubt. The only way to move toward universal coverage via private health plans is to require everyone to be in the insurance pool and to offer subsidies to lower-income folks who’d otherwise be unable to buy a policy. Conservatives understood these facts and supported this approach until President Obama decided to adopt their ideas and put real money behind them. ... The left is (rightly) cheering the vindication of Romneycare, which the president now has a legal green light to take national. Mitt Romney is assailing his own pioneering policy and vowing to scrap it at the federal level if he gets the chance. And Roberts is being trashed by supposed champions of the private sector, whose role in health-care finance has in fact been preserved by Roberts’s surprise switcheroo. That may not have been the chief justice’s intent — his real motives and reasoning in this historic exercise of power may be known only to his wife — but it’s the result. If conservatives had any sense of their long-term interests they’d be thanking him.
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There is nothing conservative about Robert’s vote.
I disagree. The health insurance industry is walking dead with this ruling.
Not right away but, they will be gone in 5-10 yrs.
I know someone in the industry and that’s what he says.
The gov./Obama/democrat vision is single payer. the Fed as the payer.
It will give them total control over the people because practically every thing we do, eat has an impact on our health. Costs doncha know.
Bingo ditto. Employers dump their employees out of company health plans (see other thread -- they were already going for it), and presto -- single player, single payer.
Howard Raines, former chief editor of The New York Times who got chased out by the Jayson Blair scandal, told us in October 2008 in an article he wrote for Conde' Nast's Portfolio that this was baked in the cake.
The Republicans threw the 2008 election so Obama could take the popularity hit for employers' dumping their employee health plan and flowing the premiums down to the bottom line -- with a brief stop for magnificent executive "competitiveness" and "capital formation" bonuses. It was a done deal, negotiated and executed through the think tanks -- Harvard for the liberals, American Enterprise Institute for the Business Roundtable/Chamber/RNC.
hitchwolf, try untangling your "is" and "isn't" statements so that your statements actually parse.
Thought I'd better say something now, since you Hillary! Democrats are usually pretty short-lived in this forum.
The target demographic for this program is huge. It's every lax mom with malnourished, sugar-tweaking kids who wants access to a doctor. Now the 'Rats will have the program necessary to organize them politically, to MAKE them UNDERSTAND that their kids' health is Obama Health, just like those Obama phones and Obama gimmes.
This will give the Rats the White House for 300 years. Or until it burns down under a mushroom cloud.
Howell Raines not "Howard" Raines. Don't know how I missed that on edit; stupid error.
Romney can ride this all the way to November - THIS IS A TAX declares the Supreme Court.
Won’t pay one dime more in taxes, right? Ready made campaign slogan....
I remind everyone that the only ones who will pay for this bill are the ones already paying....we pay our taxes...we buy insurance...and now, we get to pay more in taxes and our premiums will go up while our choices go down...
what a country....
get off the grid......stop feeding the monster...
I imagine we'll be paying for transgender surgery, for sex selection, for birth control, etc...
Roberts no matter how you paint it just screwed us...
Yep!
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