Federal judge rules Obamacare is being funded unconstitutionally

LA Times ^ | May 12, 2016 | David G. Savage

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[eyeamok]

Bingo, Congress is trying to get the Judicial Branch to do THEIR JOB for them. They are impotent, weak, and the root source of this problem. They could have taken care of this themselves if they weren’t such quisling little wusses.

[randita]

The entire plan can only exist if the Federal Government reimburses insurance companies for their losses.

Even that isn't going to save it. The losses are way more than the reimbursements. That's why many insurers have exited or are considering exiting the program altogether.

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Imagine the impact on the insurance companies when they have to pay back the money. Government doesn’t usually say “oops” and let you keep the money.

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Also here...http://www.scotusblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/HofR-challenge-to-ACA-DCt-5-12-16.pdf

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As a result, the Act does not reflect the type of care and deliberation that one might expect of such significant legislation. Cf. Frankfurter, Some Reflections on the Reading of Statutes , 47 Colum. L. Rev. 527, 545 (1947) (describing a cartoon “in which a senator tells his colleagues ‘I admit this new bill is too complicated to understand. We’ll just have to pass it to find out wha t it means.’”).