SCOTUS have become irrelivent.
The case, Coons vs. Lew, was initially brought to court in 2011 by business owner Nick Coons and orthopedic surgeon Dr. Eric Novack. The two, with the help of additional legal backing, alleged that the Independent Payment Advisory Board, or IPAB, would trim Medicare costs and potentially hurt their business by instituting reimbursement levels that wouldn't cover their own expenses.
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In August 2014, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco dismissed the case by noting that that the IPAB didn't do any direct harm to either Nick Coons' business or Dr. Eric Novack. Furthermore, the Court ruled that the earliest point at which the IPAB would assert its power and potentially reduce Medicare reimbursements would be in 2019.
I'd like to know what idiot lawyers ever let these guys pursue this case in the first place. One of the basic principles of law is that you don't have any standing to file a lawsuit unless one of the following two conditions is met: (1) you are suffering some kind of loss or harm (and this means actual loss or harm now, not potential loss or harm sometime in the future; and/or (2) you are facing some kind of harm or loss that cannot be remedied through financial recompense (if you are in danger of bodily harm or death, for example).
For a medical practitioner or business owner to file a lawsuit based on what might happen in 2019 is preposterous. This is precisely why the U.S. Supreme Court didn't even agree to hear this case.
Thank you very much J. Roberts you simpering punk
there still is an origination clause challenge eventually.
Such condescension. The Left is truly the home of gifted intelligence. Only the smartest people need register as Democrats.
The Motley Fool living up to it’s name again.
SCOTUS is like Obama - it makes law as it goes along. Look at them - Bader-Ginsburg, Soto-Mayor, Breyer, Kagan, Roberts - would you hire any if these idiots to defend you? Would you even buy a used car from one of these freaks or have a beer with one? They are sophomoric fools.
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Well, the court was right to dismiss for lack of standing.
But IPAB is SO blatantly, floridly, OBVIOUSLY unconstitutional that I can only believe the authors of Obamacare believed that by 2017 their creation would have collapsed and been replaced by full-on nationalization.
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