[Innovative]

Excellent!

Get it done the sooner the better.

[cba123]

Just saying.

Trump has, for as long as I remember, said “repeal, and replace”.

Repeal, and replace.

Don’t forget that second part of that.

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

Ordinarily, this would have been very difficult, which the Democrats were relying on. However, one person, Chief Justice Roberts, has made it remarkably (relatively speaking) easy.

For all those conservatives who damned Roberts for supporting Obamacare when he would have lost if he opposed it, then inserting a “poison pill” into the SCOTUS decision, what we are witnessing right now is the effect of that poison pill.

Had Chief Justice Roberts voted against Obamacare, the liberals would have won, and made Obamacare impossible to repeal.

[Amendment10]

The problem that I have with Congress “repealing” unconstitutional Obamacare is this. Repealing Obamacare is arguably a way to sidestep the fact that the states have never expressly constitutionally delegated to the feds the specific power to regulate, tax and spend in the name of INTRAstate healthcare purposes. This is evidenced by the following excerpts from historical Supreme Court case opinions which lawless Obama’s state sovereignty-ignoring justices seemingly ignored when they decided Obamacare in Congress’s favor.

• “Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States.” —Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.

• ”State inspection laws, health laws, and laws for regulating the internal commerce of a State, and those which respect turnpike roads, ferries, &c. are not within the power granted to Congress [emphases added].” —Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.

• ”From the accepted doctrine that the United States is a government of delegated powers, it follows that those not expressly granted, or reasonably to be implied from such as are conferred, are reserved to the states, or to the people. To forestall any suggestion to the contrary, the Tenth Amendment was adopted. The same proposition, otherwise stated, is that powers not granted are prohibited [emphasis added].” —United States v. Butler, 1936.

Patriots need to support Trump to either work Trumpcare within Congress’s limited Commerce Clause powers (1.8.3), basically letting the states run their own healthcare programs.

"The States should be left to do whatever acts they can do as well as the General Government." --Thomas Jefferson to John Harvie, 1790.

Or if the feds require new constitutional powers for Trumpcare, to work with the states and the feds to ratify a Trumpcare amendment to the Constitution.

[T Ruth]

Repeal now.

Replace by and by . . . after the budget is balanced . . . after the national debt is paid off.

[redgolum]

Has anyone thought about how this will play out if nothing is ready to replace it? The old system is gone, and tearing down the new one won’t bring it back.

I hate obamacare, it has raised my premiums a lot, but throwing it out without some thought is setting the Dems up for a massive upset in two years.