Repeal?
The GOP promised that, and demonstrated they are LIARS.
Why? Because they, their staff and families are EXEMPT.
The Constitution
Why The Affordable Care Act Isn’t ‘Here To Stay’—In One Picture
Good article by someone who is well-respected on the subject.
1) Repeal - won't happen, the MSM and Obama will be all over that and the RINOs won't have the stomach to weather that storm.
2) Marketplace failures - no biggie, the feds will just take it all over, they've got a printing press and the ability to create money out of thin air.
3) Rising costs - hey, then bent down the cost curve, what are you talking about, it is saving millions of Americans thousands of dollars.
4) Enrollment challenges - millions of Americans have gotten coverage that they didn't have before. Who cares if millions more have lost theirs, they can get it back if they apply.
5) Another Lawsuit - you think John Roberts is going away anytime soon? You've got to be kidding.
“The White House’s victory at the Supreme Court last week removed a major threat to ObamaCare that could have rolled back coverage for 6.4 million people. “
As opposed to the millions who lost affordable coverage due to ObamaCare.
It’s engineered to fail catastrophically in order to create a crisis moment where even Republican Congresscritters will be compelled to vote yea on single payer.
There may be lingering threats, but Republicans aren’t one of them.
I don't expect Roberts to overturn on this one either, because technically, the bill originated in the House and that will be his escape clause.
However, the true Constitutional issue is whether bills just act as numbered generic containers originating in either chamber, or whether "origination" includes the original content of the bill. Is a House bill, amended in the Senate to remove its title and all of its content and then replaced with entirely new Senate content, still considered a House-originated bill?
What's at stake is the plenary power of each chamber. The Senate has "advice and consent" and treaty ratification power that the House does not. The House has revenue origination and impeachment power that the Senate does not. If the Senate is allowed to gut an ordinary House bill with revenue content of its own making, then it has usurped a Constitutionally separated power of the House.
Roberts opened up this quagmire when he first legislated that the individual mandate penalty was a tax, something that nobody argued. In order to defend that decision, Robert now has to strip the House of its unique revenue origination power.
Mr. Balls and Strikes would be personally shredding the Constitution to pieces. My guess is that we'll never see Sissel v. United States Department of Health & Human Services leave the DC Circuit Court, just to protect Roberts' pretzel.
-PJ
The obtuse public is gonna get the "green weeny" and they won't even have to bend over.