Posted on 01/30/2014 5:37:41 AM PST by afraidfortherepublic
Someone you probably are not familiar with has filed a suit you probably have not heard about concerning a four-word phrase you should know about. The suit could blow to smithereens something everyone has heard altogether too much about, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (hereafter, ACA).
Scott Pruitt and some kindred spirits might accelerate the ACA’s collapse by blocking another of the Obama administration’s lawless uses of the Internal Revenue Service. Pruitt was elected Oklahoma’s attorney general by promising to defend states’ prerogatives against federal encroachment, and today he and some properly litigious people elsewhere are defending a state prerogative that the ACA explicitly created. If they succeed, the ACA’s disintegration will accelerate.
Because under the ACA, insurance companies cannot refuse coverage because of an individual’s preexisting condition. Because many people might therefore wait to purchase insurance after they become sick, the ACA requires a mandate to compel people to buy insurance. And because many people cannot afford the insurance that satisfies the ACA’s criteria, the ACA mandate makes it necessary to provide subsidies for those people.
The four words that threaten disaster for the ACA say the subsidies shall be available to persons who purchase health insurance in an exchange “established by the state.” But 34 states have chosen not to establish exchanges.
So the IRS, which is charged with enforcing the ACA, has ridden to the rescue of Barack Obama’s pride and joy. Taking time off from writing regulations to restrict the political speech of Obama’s critics, the IRS has said, with its breezy indifference to legality, that subsidies shall also be dispensed to those who purchase insurance through federal exchanges the government has established in those 34 states. Pruitt is challenging the IRS in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Oklahoma, and...
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LOL. Here is proof from a Google search: About 371,000 results (0.42 seconds) to a search for “I’m hear to help”
Can 370,000 Google references be wrong????
LOL 2.0.
The Governing Class is so invested in ObamaCare that the plain meaning of words is no barrier to inventing a way to keep imposing it on us. Just recall what Justice Roberts did to re-invent it as a legal tax.
What is the “ACA?” Is it anything like ObamaCare? :)
Lol! I must get more coffee. Spelling was once my friend.
I love what you did there, lol!
I don’t think this suit has a chance.
The exemptions provided by Sebelius and Obama to favored groups should provide the best legal fodder for nullifying Obamacare.
When you are forced to do something by the government that others are not forced to do, then equal protection laws are violated.
I believe that once someone pays a fine for not having insurance, they then have standing to sue under equal protection.
I understand the subsidies to state exchanges ends after 3 years
Which coincides with the end of Obama's term.
How utterly convenient.
>>When you are forced to do something by the government that others are not forced to do, then equal protection laws are violated.<<
Hasn’t the tax code had exemptions built into it for decades? Under federal law, some are more equal than others.
‘Meant’ and ‘absolutely stated in the law’ are two VERY much different things; the judge should be buh-bye by now.
Even the States have no cajones to stand up to the Fed. leviathan
I have no issues with your spelling... lol.
Obama (and the Dems) would absolutely LOVE to replace Congress with the IRS.
The call is coming from inside the house!
OK, that’s eight words.
George went a whole article without an amusing anecdote about Roger Hornsby?
OK, that’s twelve words.
Obama Supporter: "We is not sure what ACA be - probly some union, or somethin, but whatever it be, Obamacare is much better. It's FREE!"
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