Why Chief Justice Roberts will save Obamacare again

Fortune.com ^ | 03/02/2015 | Roger Parloff

[GIdget2004]

The Supreme Court’s credibility is at stake in Wednesday’s argument

While the Obamacare challenge being argued before the U.S. Supreme Court Wednesday is not an easy case, it does hinge upon an inescapably far-fetched claim—one that, if it prevails, will cause deep, lasting damage to the court’s credibility in the eyes of about half the nation’s population.

I suspect Chief Justice John Roberts, Jr., won’t let that happen.

The challengers’ central argument in King v. Burwell is that the Affordable Care Act—the signature achievement of the Obama Administration and the most significant social legislation in a generation—must be given an interpretation that no legislator, no analyst, no journalist, and no pundit ever anticipated, aloud or in print, prior to its passage.

If accepted by the Court, this reading will immediately render the care provided by the Affordable Care Act unaffordable to about 7 million enrollees in at least 34 states. It would then likely force many health insurers to withdraw from the program (due to erroneous actuarial assumptions), while forcing those remaining to raise their premiums, in turn forcing still more enrollees to drop out, in turn forcing further premium hikes, and so on, in what health care economists refer to as a “death spiral.”

[pas]

Exactly the power is with the pen and the phone as everyone knows.

[Joe Boucher]

Roberts and his court as well as so many judges in America today are worthless mookabookers that deserve to be in stocks in front of courts for all to throw rotten pooh at.

[VideoDoctor]

The Chicago Mafia has something big on Roberts

It has to do with his TWO illegally adopted children.

Tea Party Nation Wonders if John Roberts was 'Blackmailed' to Uphold Health Care Reform

http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/tea-party-nation-wonders-if-john-roberts-was-blackmailed-uphold-health-care-reform

[VideoDoctor]

he will not go against the dictator.

From my POV you are CORRECCT.

Roberts is a WEAK Casper Milquetoast type personality.

[The_Media_never_lie]

I do not know about his children. However, who knows what secrets adults may have. I am not alleging anything, but the politics of personal destruction are just around the corner. Why, he would be portrayed as the one person keeping a million sick Americans from receiving life saving health care, and sob stories would abound.

I would not want to be in his shoes.

[savedbygrace]

The challengers’ central argument in King v. Burwell is that the Affordable Care Act—the signature achievement of the Obama Administration and the most significant social legislation in a generation—must be given an interpretation that no legislator, no analyst, no journalist, and no pundit ever anticipated, aloud or in print, prior to its passage.

That is false. The legislators were told plainly what the text says and means.