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Walker: States will not rescue ObamaCare in wake of court ruling
The Hill ^ | 06/24/2015 | Sarah Ferris

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 don’t 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 ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: health; obamacare
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To: mojito
Don’t worry: John Roberts will rewrite the law and all will be well.

This ars hat is mentally ill.

21 posted on 06/24/2015 11:58:36 AM PDT by Logical me
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To: GIdget2004

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.


22 posted on 06/24/2015 12:02:23 PM PDT by cydcharisse (`)
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To: SoFloFreeper

Exactly


23 posted on 06/24/2015 12:08:46 PM PDT by gr8eman (Don't waste your energy trying to understand commies. Use it to defeat them!)
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To: GIdget2004

Well that is a change from when he implemented Obamacare without the approval of the state legislature.


24 posted on 06/24/2015 12:19:46 PM PDT by conservativejoy (We Can Elect Ted Cruz! Pray Hard, Work Hard, Trust God!)
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To: GIdget2004

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.


25 posted on 06/24/2015 12:42:19 PM PDT by RightFighter (This space for rent)
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To: mouser
What makes you think they want to encourage Conservative voters?
26 posted on 06/24/2015 12:53:04 PM PDT by nomad
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To: GIdget2004

>>“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.


27 posted on 06/24/2015 1:01:26 PM PDT by Norseman (Defund the Left....completely!)
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To: Mouton
Good for him.

Read further on. He wants Congress to rescue Obamacare for him.

28 posted on 06/24/2015 1:10:20 PM PDT by DoodleDawg
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To: V_TWIN
The irony in that is delicious.

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.

29 posted on 06/24/2015 1:13:36 PM PDT by DoodleDawg
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To: GIdget2004

30 posted on 06/24/2015 1:35:42 PM PDT by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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To: conservativejoy

“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?


31 posted on 06/24/2015 1:47:07 PM PDT by Hardens Hollow (Couldn't find Galt's Gulch, so created our own Harden's Hollow to quit paying the fascist beast.)
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To: RightFighter

Didn’t know that. Well, that changes everything as far as how subsidies could be reinstated.


32 posted on 06/24/2015 1:49:41 PM PDT by Hardens Hollow (Couldn't find Galt's Gulch, so created our own Harden's Hollow to quit paying the fascist beast.)
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To: Hardens Hollow

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.


33 posted on 06/24/2015 1:59:24 PM PDT by RightFighter (This space for rent)
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To: RightFighter

would they go out of their way to do that? That’d be rewriting the law.


34 posted on 06/24/2015 2:04:06 PM PDT by Hardens Hollow (Couldn't find Galt's Gulch, so created our own Harden's Hollow to quit paying the fascist beast.)
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To: Hardens Hollow
No. Here's an article that I found interesting. Link to Washington Post Some of the issues I have with Walker are to do with jobs and salaries. Wisconsin is 50th in new business start ups, 48th in salaries, 40 in job creation. Then there is a projected 2 billion dollar budget deficit. <> There are ethics issues as well. This month his legislature removed him as Chairman of the WEDC, an agency that he created to replace the state Commerce Dept. Since it's beginning WEDC has paid out $975 million tax dollars and has a net loss of jobs of over -7,000 jobs, losing 2 jobs for each job created. 60% of that money went to Walker donors. An Audit and other evidence has been turned over to the prosecutors office to determine if "Pay to Play is involved.
35 posted on 06/24/2015 3:36:34 PM PDT by conservativejoy (We Can Elect Ted Cruz! Pray Hard, Work Hard, Trust God!)
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To: Hardens Hollow

I can’t imagine any court ever rewriting the law. ;)


36 posted on 06/24/2015 4:49:37 PM PDT by RightFighter (This space for rent)
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To: Little Ray
I would hope that a delegation of authority is an affirmative action, not a default position based on inaction. A state cannot have its authority taken away because it chooses to not do something.

That's like saying that the president can recess Congress to make recess appointments because Congress chose not to recess.

-PJ

37 posted on 06/25/2015 7:03:37 AM PDT by Political Junkie Too (If you are the Posterity of We the People, then you are a Natural Born Citizen.)
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To: RightFighter

Right again.


38 posted on 06/25/2015 8:05:11 AM PDT by Hardens Hollow (Couldn't find Galt's Gulch, so created our own Harden's Hollow to quit paying the fascist beast.)
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To: Hildy; GIdget2004; All

Did I call it or what?


39 posted on 06/25/2015 8:10:03 AM PDT by Little Ray (How did I end up in this hand-basket, and why is it getting so hot?)
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