Posted on 07/01/2012 5:19:45 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
WASHINGTON — President Obama's healthcare law emerged from its bruising two-year legal ordeal largely intact, with its primary goal of guaranteeing all Americans health security still standing.
The Supreme Court, however, is only the first of several daunting obstacles the law must clear.
Most immediately is the November election, which could shift control of the White House and the Senate to Republicans, which would almost certainly spell the end for the Affordable Care Act.
Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney has pledged to dismantle the law if he defeats Obama. And stripping funding for its main parts would be relatively easy for a GOP Congress, even if the party had only a narrow majority in the Senate.
Even if Obama wins a second term, there is no guarantee the law will survive in its current form. Pressure is mounting in Washington to dramatically cut federal spending as budget deficits yawn. And the president and other supporters of the law may be hard-pressed to defend the $1.7-trillion price tag for expanding insurance coverage over the next decade.
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Rats are sure spending a lot of time not calling it a tax. IMO a major problem for them.
Read my lips!
Oh yes, the coming Death Panels are certainly going to “guarantee health security” for all of us. It is time to rid our country of the communist filth some have allowed to take over.
I don't give a rat's ass if it's 'politically risky' ... they need to do what is BEST for AMEREICA, not what is best for their re-election or we won't have a country in which to hold elections (or one where elections cease to exist). They need to beg, borrow or steal a spine, grow/find a set of stones, & get it done. Roberts (even with his horrible ruling) gave them a huge weapon for November. USE it:
UN-Affordable Care Act
ObamacareTAX
Health CareControl
WE need to start working on our congresscritters NOW (one example: call/email/letter at least once a week - Dems, too) - failure is NOT an option.
$1.7-trillion price tag for expanding insurance coverage over the next decade.
Another gift from the toxic president,how democrat of him.
Expect to start hearing this now: "I didn't raise taxes on the middle-class, the US Supreme Court did!" - Barack Hussein Obama, 2012.
Any bets that's gonna start happening?
I call it the OSHIT Tax:
Obama
Supremes
Healthcare
Insurance
Tax.
That's exactly what Americans will be saying after Labor Day when they wake up, start paying attention to the Presidential Election, and realize that not only are the Bush Tax Cuts expiring, but that their taxes and medical insurance costs are going to go through the roof also!
It's not Obamacare anymore, it's the OSHIT tax!
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I wonder if black market doctoring will take place. When the government pulls BS like this Americans work around it. Doctors will not throw away their knowledge but maybe start homeservice practices where citizens with money can still receive some kind of professional care.
That's racist!
(sorry, couldn't resist.)
“I didn’t raise taxes on the middle-class, the US Supreme Court did!” - Barack Hussein Obama, 2012.
But the Solicitor General argued before the USSC that indeed it was a tax, and he speaks for the President.
We needed more proof after "free drugs for seniors" and paying full list price for all drugs to big Pharma thanks to Bush and the biggest expansion of Federal Government since LBJ?
Context is always important so here goes: Yes, he made that argument, the day after he argued it wasn't.
The problem with that the states have total control of doctors’ practicing because doctors have to be licensed by the jurisdictions in order to practice. So...if you don’t practice how we want and where we want...no license for you. I believe many doctors will retire as early as they can, move to a conservative community and try to stay as healthy as they can. I did and am.
Looking at some posts on FR, apparently so.
Doesn't Barry blame everyone else? Isn't this going to be yet another classic example of Barry Soetoro's blame shifting away from himself onto the USSC?
Barry: "I didn't make this a tax, the US Supreme Court did! *I* never called this a tax!"
What a liar this POC is, I cannot wait for Election Day to throw the worst President EVER clear out of the White House. Then it needs a good scrubbing down to remove the stench and whatever else this lying POC left behind...
Sadly you're 100% correct. Those are the same folks declaring Roberts a "genius" who handed the Republican party a "gift" by being a cowoard and not applying the Constitution.
Sigh ...... what's happened to this forum? I swear, what passes for conservatism and republicanism on this forum is no longer recognizable, and I say that as a proud member of the Class of 1998 which led the charge to Clinton's impeachment.
I like it .... another deception from Obama/Dems: Health Care is really Health Control.
How can anyone have the balls to include hiring 1600 new people at the IRS to collect the outrageous cost of this disaster, and then have the balls to deny it is a tax?
is America really that stupid?
Well the Democrat half is, but when that money starts coming out of their pockets maybe they will wise up.
Yoiu think the economy is bad now, wait until we start paying the bill for this disaster.
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