Posted on 10/13/2017 10:16:10 AM PDT by granite
WASHINGTON, Oct 13 (Reuters) - A coalition of U.S. states will file a new lawsuit challenging President Donald Trump's plan to end Obamacare subsidies to health insurers that help low-income people pay out-of-pocket medical expenses, a source in the New York attorney general's Office said on Friday.
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More tyrants in black robes who think the power of the purse lies in the judicial branch.
Unconstitutional actions: fine with too many states
Constitutional corrections: really upsets some states
Lets play...
GUESS THOSE STATES!
Figured NYS would be in this. A state that has few options, and none that aren’t horrifically expensive, unless you’re on the dole. One of many reasons NYS is hemorrhaging taxpayers, jobs, and House seats. Meanwhile, they spend more tax dollars defending the indefensible.
This damn state ought to have Dante’s “Abandon hope all ye who enter here” on our welcome signage.
Good! Run this issue up to the Supremes
Less than 24 hours...about what I figured.
Wasting the taxpayer’s money.
This indicates which states politicians are getting kickbacks from these subsidies.
It was an illegal subsidy decreed by King Hussein, who has been deposed.
Another lawsuit based on shopping for the right judge. The Ctrl-Left thugs just had to find a judge willing to rule that the President must spend money on demand, even if that money has not been appropriated by Congress. After eight years under the usurper and self-proclaimed “Constitutional Law Professor” from Indonesia, it should not be hard to find a judge willing to assert that nonexistent authority.
I’d just ignore these courts no matter what they say.
I could be wrong, but is this not just undoing Obama’s unlawful EO?
How can it be unconstitutional to use an EO to roll back an EO. And is not constitutionality all these judges should care about?
My understanding is that Pres. Trump didn’t cut anything. If I recall correctly, a federal district court judge ruled last year that Obama unconstitutionally usurped the powers of the House of Representatives when he “enacted” the subsidy by executive order, but the subsidies continued during the appeal process. Pres, Trump simply exercised his executive authority to discontinue the appeal, which means that the federal district judge’s order that strikes the subsidies as unconstitutional is now final and binding.
And some liberal Obama appointee will quickly issue an injunction on the Constitutional grounds that...uhm Trump once tweeted something about Obamacare that sounded mean or something....
Then the taxpayers will be forced to pay for this BS for another two years until all the appeals are exhausted and the Supreme Court unanimously strikes down the original court injunction and restores some sanity.
Too funny that those states' Attorneys General think the law is going to force the President, any President, to do something that is unconstitutional!
The cowardly GOP refused to take Obama to court stop him from committing a clearly unconstitutional act, yet watch liberals try to make it happen!!
Courts have already ruled against these payments to insurance companies. They were not authorized by congress and the government has no legal authority to make them. Will the courts create law where there is none? Will the supreme court back them up? Hope a few more justices get replaced very soon. And, by the way, is there any movement anywhere on breaking up the 9th circuit?
Excellent point. Lobbying in action. These are government payments to private insurance companies to administer a public program which the companies participated in writing.
This is decided law. The law does not give to power to subsidize in this area and obama ignored it and wrote his own law and the courts said, sorry el duce II you can’t do that.
This was part of an obama EO. Live by the pen, die by the pen. These leeches and their health insurance cronies can go pound sand. They wanted government mandated compulsory insurance, like car insurance, and jacked up the rates in anticipation of this mandate.
The best thing for health insurance is nationwide insurance competition, and the insurance industry has to compete for customers.
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