Posted on 03/17/2015 7:08:42 AM PDT by PROCON
CHICAGO — IT is time to talk about President Obama’s contingency plan for health care. The Supreme Court heard oral arguments earlier this month in King v. Burwell, a case challenging the provision of tax credits on federal insurance exchanges. While the legal issues are dry lawyers’ fare — how to interpret several interconnected phrases of the Affordable Care Act — the practical stakes are high. The government estimates that millions of Americans will be left without affordable health insurance if it loses.
While the administration may well prevail, it has expressed remarkable pessimism about its options if it does lose. The secretary of health and human services, Sylvia Mathews Burwell, wrote to Congress last month about the administration’s lack of a contingency plan: “We know of no administrative actions that could, and therefore we have no plans that would, undo the massive damage to our health care system that would be caused by an adverse decision.”
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Well, then, how about an immediate class action suit, on behalf of all the millions of regular, taxpaying victims who lost their policies, and/or saw both their premiums and deductibles skyrocket, while at the same time getting "coverage" that they neither want or can ever use? They certainly can claim standing.
Unless the SC can declare that all the Federal and State statues against fraud do not apply to rogue elected officials.
That would be interesting.
Include me in.
Yes, our Forefathers were brilliant in their inclusion of the 2nd Amendment; now what, is it time?
Faggots and pitchforks?
Not quite right. A 2/3 majority in the Senate is required, and too many democRats won't let that happen.
What’s Plan B?
Surrender, and we are already living it.
It's called a precedent. It will open the floodgates to millions of suits that lower courts will have to rule likewise on. Hussein's goon squad may be JV, but surely they've considered this.
Several officers in the Praetorian Guard ended up murdering Caligula while they were escorting him through an access tunnel, out of sight of any witnesses.
Just a little aside from history. History may not always repeat itself, but it is an excellent echo chamber.
This is the kind of insanity that can only exist in la-la lawyer land. Should Obama lose in King, it would mean that many billions of dollars annually are being given illegally to millions of recipients. On Constitutional grounds, this is a presidential usurpation of the power of the purse. On narrowly legalistic grounds, these billions of dollars would be coming either from taxpayers, or non-subsidized ratepayers who are being overcharged to generate the subsidy dollars. If I am being deliberately overchaged so the Obama can pay an illegal subsidy, surely I would have standing to sue.
I asked that exact question repeatedly 8 years ago when the "Manchurian Candidate" permanently left his mask at home.
We still don't know who this guy is.
And Congress doesn't seem inclined to pass a watertight statute concerning eligibility for office and immediate remedies for Constitutional abuse.
Remember, that Congress has the ability to limit the jurisdiction of the Supreme Court.
What we need are candidates for congress not bereft of both IQ and ethics.
Hopefully: Our veniet dies
Can we once and for all decide that the proper spelling for that eventuality is MARTIAL LAW?
Why not? Their Check$ will still cash and their Balance$ will still go up. The 3 branches of the tree of TOTALITARIANISM have really grown over the years.
—That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.
—Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.
And where are you going to go, Skippy?
Are we all going to invade and "transform" Liberia?
"The Second Amendment is a doomsday provision, one designed for those exceptionally rare circumstances where all other rights have failed—where the government refuses to stand for reelection and silences those who protest; where courts have lost the courage to oppose, or can find no one to enforce their decrees. However improbable these contingencies may seem today, facing them unprepared is a mistake a free people get to make only once."
Judge Alex Kozinski in his dissent to the Ninth Circuit’s denial of review in Silveira v. Lockyer:
Past time but not too late.
Doubt that he’ll have to. The bet here is that either Kennedy or Roberts will do a folderooo.
Obama’s 15 minutes is almost so as it ends he will become totally insane
Court rulings have never stopped this guy before.
The disturbing thing: our government is actually arguing that it doesn’t have to follow a law that it created itself.
And half the Court already argues that no, it doesn’t have too.
Just think about that a minute.
The frightening thing is that Obama is not the Antichrist. The real Antichrist will be far more intelligent, far more energetic, and just as evil. The real Antichrist will be far worse.
“Anyone doubt he is the AntiChrist anymore?”
Yeah, he doesn’t really fit the bill. The antichrist’s activities are focused on Jerusalem, not America.
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