I just hope this doesn’t put a damper on Obama’s 16 day Vineyard vacation. If it does, he may have to schedule an immediate 17 day HI vacation, to make up for it.
Hey, Nancy,
Judges are reading the bill that you and your colleagues were too lazy to read and those judges are not liking what they are finding in the bill.
Maybe you SHOULD have read it to find out what is in it.
Now we need to cut off the head and stuff the mouth with garlic. This thing needs to be permanently, totally killed.
I wonder how this was initially scored by the CBO? Did the Democrats ask the CBO to score the health care law based on all of the states setting up their own exchanges? This would be solid evidence that they wrote the law this way on purpose.
Ted Cruz just issued this statement:
“The D.C. Circuit’s decision today in Halbig v. Burwell is a repudiation of Obamacare and all the lawlessness that has come with it,” said Sen. Cruz. “The Obama Administration, through the Internal Revenue Service, has attempted to dispense revenues to the states without proper congressional authorization, robbing Congress of its constitutionally-provided power of the purse. This decision restores power to Congress and to the people and if properly enforced, should shield citizens from Obamacare’s insidious penalties, mandates, and subsidies. This is a significant victory for the American people and the rule of law, but we must not rest. Americans will continue to lose jobs, pay higher premiums, and receive fewer healthcare choices because of this disastrous law. Every last word of Obamacare must be repealed to restore jobs, growth, and opportunity in our country.”
... with probably just as many who succeeded to fraudulently verified their citizenship!
So are the waivers.
Halbig v. Burwell Would Free More Than 57 Million Americans From The ACA’s Individual & Employer Mandates
I’m not holding my breath. Does anybody seriously think Roberts will go along with this...I don’t.
“Update: Will it stand, though? Good point on procedural next steps here:
Reid’s nuclear option, which put 3 new Obama-appt judges on the DC Circuit, could save Obamacare.”
— Sahil Kapur (@sahilkapur) July 22, 2014
“Federal appeals courts typically assign three judges to hear a case. This one came out 2-1. The losing party can petition, though, for an “en banc” hearing, in which all judges on the circuit re-hear the case together and issue a new opinion affirming or reversing the previous one. Kapur’s point is that ramming through a few Obama appointees means this case has a better chance than it otherwise would have of being reversed en banc.”
“Update: The White House is already getting ready for en banc review:
Obama Adm official on Halbig: “The Department of Justice can, and will, seek en banc review by the full D.C. Circuit”
— Sam Stein (@samsteinhp) July 22, 2014
The One wins again.
WOW —
Dare we hope that the wheels of this administration are finally coming off!
Another ‘glitch’ !
If only we had conservative congressmen with actual balls, to strike hard while the beast is wounded. But alas, we only have kept eunuchs.
Show what happens when Obama issues an Executive order stating that the judgement doesn’t matter?
Update:
Whitehouse says Screw the court ruling, subsidies will continue to flow
DOJ response at link
http://weaselzippers.us/194056-white-house-screw-the-court-ruling-obamacare-subsidies-will-keep-flowing/
This decision has put me in position to be cheering that taxpayers in certain states will be paying more in taxes by attempting to follow the law by being forced to purchase insurance
Conflicting judgments from courts as cited on msn
A three-judge panel unanimously said the law was ambiguous, and that it would defer to the IRS’s determination that subsidies could go to individuals who purchased health insurance on both federal and state-run exchanges.
A separate panel from a federal appeals court in Washington on Tuesday morning said the IRS could not offer premium tax credits to people who purchase insurance through the federal insurance marketplace that serves most of the 8 million consumers who have signed up for private coverage for 2014.
obamacare is like the evil villain in a hrorror movie.
I won’t believe it’s dead until its been dismemembered, stomped, beheaded, driven over, and lit on fire. And even then its probably not dead. But one can always hope.