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Posted on 07/25/2014 9:07:31 AM PDT by Kaslin
Buying a policy for every uninsured person would have cost us a fraction of what Obamacare has already cost.
For some reason, this reminds me of the scene in Cool Hand Luke where Luke holds up the tree-branch from which the snapping turtle hangs by his clenched jaws, and yells to the guard "look Boss, dead as hell and won't let go."
They haven’t lost anything yet. The Administration will request a rehearing by the full Appeals Court and they’ll overturn the three-judge ruling.
I was gonna say....show me. I’ll believe its dead when I see it.
I have always assumed that providing health care was never the goal...the goal was the destruction of private health care and private insurance.
That is why, even though we conservatives may think that some of the liberal statists who pushed for this disaster are crying (and some are, the dimmer ones) but the ones who really understand the true goals are secretly rejoicing.
They WANT this to be a major disaster, and when it is done, hospitals will be broke, private insurance will have left the sector, and people will clamor for the government to step in and fix it.
THAT is their goal.
Not just that the law means only what they need it to mean at the moment, but also that it applies to only whomever they need it to apply to at the moment. That's what SCOTUS would be codifying by overturning this and letting Congressional Democrats get away with this federal subsidy deceit.
They would be endorsing the practice of writing a bill one way out of necessity to get a compromise passed, knowing that Democrats can deny it later and get SCOTUS to write for them what they really wanted all along in the end.
-PJ
The appropriate question is, does the “common sacrifice” for it manage to buy its money’s worth? And the answer is yes, if that means its money’s worth of meddlesome government drones. As for actual health care, that is another question.
It’s satanic at bottom. And it STILL will be unfair, by the very measures of fairness that were proffered at the outset of this debacle.
Also, they needed the states to enforce the individual mandate, employer penalties, & changes to health care plans... It was unconstitutional w/o forcing the states to run state exchanges. Forbes, has a really good article:
hold on there. blues dont make money and insurance at this point pays the bills. who is building brand new digs. not the insurance companies.
. . . and that will drag the process out another year - according to plan.But as the WSJ pointed out a couple of days ago, the fact that Obama won in a different venue (notwithstanding that judge’s finding that:
Judge Roger Ferguson, writing for the Fourth Circuit whose King v. Burwell decision upholding the IRS was announced the same day, wrote that those challenging the government "have the better of the statutory construction arguments.”)means that it is not Burwell (i.e., the administration) but King who is in a position to appeal that ruling - and that King need not ask for an en blanc hearing, but could elect to appeal directly to SCOTUS.
I’m NOT a lawyer. But I believe the Supreme Court cannot/will not consider evidence that was not introduced at the appeals level.
Thus somehow, this needs to get into consideration. Not sure how...
He can but I thought I read somewhere where King is already planning his Supreme Court appeal. However there is no guarantee that the Court will agree to hear it.
Even the judge who ruled for the government in King admitted that he wasn’t going by what the law said, and was intended to say.
“It is the first time I’ve refused to comply with the law as I see it as immoral and unconstitutional. I cancelled my health insurance on January first and will never have health insurance until Obamacare is appealed. I will also never pay a penalty. I always end up owing the FedGov at tax time and will ensure that carries forward into the future.”
Wow, you ARE a rebel. I love it!
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