Posted on 06/28/2012 9:14:49 AM PDT by AngelesCrestHighway
The Supreme Court ruling on President Obama's health care law is complicated, just like the law itself. Today the court said the law is mostly constitutional. Here is what it means for you: - You have to buy health insurance or be subject to a tax - If you are under 26, you can get health insurance from the plan your parents use. - If you're on Medicare, you can get free mammograms. - If you have what's called a pre-existing condition, you can get health insurance. - Insurance companies can't deny you coverage even if you get sick and make a mistake on your health insurance application.
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I agree. I believe that this will energize voters like never before!
...severely burned toast.
You`re wrong. Wind is at his back now , BIG WIN
Even IF the RINO Romney wins the USSC precedent remains. When the democrats eventually take over again they have the RIGHT to force you to buy services ( and in the future, goods) under penalty of law !!!
Get it ?
The USA has been finally transformed completely ( Wickard v. Filburn was the BIG 1st step ) into a Statist, neo-marxist Socialist State.
OmamaCare waiving pre-existing conditions means a non-insured guy can have a heart attack and on the way to the hospital whip out a cell phone to sign up for health insurance.
This and many other flaws means we few taxpayers will have to pay even more to support feckless strangers.
If I can find a way...I’m voting more than once...I’ve f’ing had it!!!
“Obama is toast”? Here, no doubt, but this decision is far more likely to result in public acceptance for his healthcare plan. After all, didn’t the nation’s highest court just say it was perfectly OK? That’s how everybody except the political junkies will see it.
Worse SCOTUS decision since Dred Scott
That is to say if you're one of the 40% whose parents still live together.
—The court ruled that the mandate is unconstitutional under the Constitution’s commerce clause, but it can stay as part of Congress’s power under a taxing clause. The court said that the government will be allowed to tax people for not having health insurance. —
Holy crap, is this true?!
If so, they basically threw the ball back in Obama’s court and said, You can’t mandate, but you can tax. We dare you to do it.”
I of course hope you are right, but I suspect this is a hallucination.
You can now be taxed because you voted for the wrong guy.
Wrong I believe.
My entire office, full of amish obamabots from 2008, are pissed beyond belief.
No one is happy.
He’s going down.
A really good money quote from the article:
“It actually settles nothing. By shifting the debate to the tax arena, and with a four-justice dissent, the decision guarantees only that the broader fight over a suitable national health policy will continue,” said Richard Saltman, a professor at the Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University. “In effect, the court decided this was too hot to handle. The focus will (has already) shift back to the political arena, where a deeply divided electorate will have to decide which policy path they want the country to pursue.”
I disagree...I think this is only going to make the hatred for this ass wipe only deeper.
College Debt
Health care costs
No Jobs
How is that Hope and Change working for you?
So, the federal government can now mandate commerce; they simply need to represent it is a negative tax: Buy this or else get taxed. So much for the US Constitution.
The US Supreme Court also ruled recently that all property is subject to confiscation to be sold for profit of the government with the owner getting what the government decides to give them. Combined with this ruling the property owner can now be taxed the entire amount of the proceeds and receive nothing.
Regardless if ObamaCare is overturned in the Congress, the court decision stands that the federal government can mandate commerce. They can tax you for anything you do not buy or they demand you buy. The federal government may now control 100% of how you spend your money.
We are now literal slaves to the government.
Since the federal government refuses to obey the constitution we should too! REVOLT!!!
—This and many other flaws means we few taxpayers will have to pay even more to support feckless strangers.—
Yep. I’m cancelling my health care insurance and going with the penalty. Much cheaper.
Really?! Tell us more-- what specific issues do they have?
I wish I thought you were right.
Here’s why.
This will be quick. Don’t have time to go over all of this with you right now. Don’t forget the work going on w/Holder.
The Obamacare ruling is good news for us. Real good news. It’s 2010 all over again now. Swing states will shift over to Romney in most cases. Trust me on this. We’ve done the polling. The data is conclusive on this. It’s a huge tax. We got Obama lying. Again.
The Tea Party movement, which was as real and powerful a political movement as I’ve ever seen in my lifetime, is back in play. That scares the hell out of the Obama White House. You just got a bunch of Dems sweating hard over their re-election. The Republican Party will now be a lot more focused and clearly conservative and that’s exactly what they need to be this time around. We must make the election a clear divide between one side and the other and this Obamacare ruling has forced that to happen.
And the initial reports I’m getting are telling me there was a lot more clever going on inside that decision than the initial reaction will indicate. It’s the Obama Tax now. And states were given an out. The entire law is a big ass convoluted mess and the ruling has reinforced that fact. Obama will have to defend something he doesn’t understand, and Romney can now sit back and just repeat over and over again “repeal-repeal-repeal”.
You can call bullsh-t on me here and I’ll understand if you do but I’m telling you right up this ruling today is GOOD NEWS. Politically, as a motivator, it’s great news. Watch contributions toward Republicans jump up even more than they already were. Watch the Obama White House have to face very hard questions over the Obamacare tax issue. Watch states rise up to challenge the administration using the weapon the Supreme Court placed in their hands to do so. Watch the Tea Party come back stronger and more powerful than ever.
The giant has woken up. Country needed a hard kick in the ass to remind us what is at stake in November. Now we are truly ready to fight.
Last thing. Romney was preparing for this decision. He gets to go with the better script now. He’s coming out swinging hard on this one.
Chin up. Fists clenched. Eyes open.
Let’s roll.
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