Posted on 06/24/2015 10:35:54 AM PDT by GIdget2004
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker issued a threat to the Obama administration on Wednesday that if the Supreme Court rules against healthcare subsidies, states will not take steps to save the law.
Governors across the country have been clear: If the Supreme Court strikes down the Obama executive overreach, we will not bail out Obama at the expense of the American people, Walker wrote in an op-ed for CNN.com on Wednesday.
The looming court case, which Walker called a turning point for the law, could come as early as Thursday. If the administration loses, 6.4 million people could lose their financial aid under ObamaCare because they dont live in the dozen or so states that run their own healthcare exchanges.
Walker has already said that he would not set up a state exchange, even if it means that 200,000 people in his state would no longer receive subsidies which he acknowledges is a big problem.
He is among a handful of Republican governors, including Florida Gov. Rick Scott, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, and Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal, who have ruled out their own exchanges.
Still, plenty more states have not yet said how they would handle the decision. Just two states Delaware and Pennsylvania have plans in place to set up an exchange, but many more could decide to do so if thousands of people's healthcare is at stake.
In a nod to a chorus of conservative groups in D.C., Walker said Republicans in Congress must use the ruling to finally repeal the law.
(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
This ars hat is mentally ill.
The Court isn’t going to do anything to endanger Obamacare. Even in unlikely event it does, Republicans in Congress will make sure nothing changes.
Exactly
Well that is a change from when he implemented Obamacare without the approval of the state legislature.
Even if states set up their own exchanges in the wake of a court ruling for the plaintiffs, those exchanges would not be eligible for subsidies. Section 1311 of the ACA specifies that the state exchanges have to be established by January 1, 2014. Also, no planning grant money for the establishment of exchanges can be paid out after January 1, 2015, so there is no incentive for the states to set up a very expensive technological monster that will cost hundreds of millions of dollars.
>>Governors across the country have been clear: If the Supreme Court strikes down the Obama executive overreach, we will not bail out Obama at the expense of the American people, Walker wrote in an op-ed for CNN.com on Wednesday.<<
I’m not down on Boehner and McConnell like most here are, but I will say this: The GOP needs leadership that can make a case accurately and succinctly.
“We will not bail out Obama at the expense of the American people” is an excellent example of what I mean.
Both Boehner and McConnell seem incapable of making such clarifying, and motivating, remarks.
Read further on. He wants Congress to rescue Obamacare for him.
Indeed, especially in light of this quote further down: "Walker said he hopes Obama and Republicans can find a way to ensure those impacted are transitioned appropriately post-Obamacare."
So he won't bail out Obamacare. He'll expect Congress to do it.
“Well that is a change from when he implemented Obamacare without the approval of the state legislature.”
He did? Does Wisconsin have a state exchange?
Didn’t know that. Well, that changes everything as far as how subsidies could be reinstated.
The only remedy, if the court were to deny the federal subsidies, would be if the court at the same time declared that date to be null and void, or declared some new date to take effect in the wake of its ruling.
would they go out of their way to do that? That’d be rewriting the law.
I can’t imagine any court ever rewriting the law. ;)
That's like saying that the president can recess Congress to make recess appointments because Congress chose not to recess.
-PJ
Right again.
Did I call it or what?
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