Please end the special exemption from Obamacare. Let the elites get a taste of reality.
Posted on 08/02/2017 5:45:39 AM PDT by artichokegrower
A federal appeals court issued a ruling Tuesday that could help preserve a key subsidy that helps health insurers and millions of Americans under the Affordable Care Act. The ruling could make it more difficult for the White House to carry out recent threats by President Donald Trump to cut off the payments, giving legal standing to a new set of the payments' defenders.
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Please end the special exemption from Obamacare. Let the elites get a taste of reality.
These judges rule, and we peons pay. This is not American. We would be better off without federal courts. Let the states handle anything not specifically mentioned in the Constitution as being a duty of the federal government, as the Tenth Amendment in the Bill of Rights mandates.
“Let’s get rid of the Presidency and Congress and just let the courts run our country.’......
I assume your comment was meant to be sarcastic but its obvious that the courts have already “gotten rid of” the POTUS, it’s congress that needs dumping. They are a bunch of lawyers and worthless twits that never held a real job in their life.
The uniparty better be very careful. With friends like these, who needs enemies...
“Let’s get rid of the Presidency and Congress and just let the courts run our country.”
It appears that’s what is happening.
They take over for the Democrats.
Both parties are fine with that by the way.
So how come THESE people have a right to bring the lawsuit but us peons have no right to sue the government for its disastrous Affordable Care Act for infringing and CAUSING US “econominc harm” by restricting health care AND increasing costs exponentially!
This is madness!
More legislation by the left-wing judiciary.
I hope Trump ignores it and withholds the subsidies.
Na, rebuke the court and tell them “Welcome to politics”.
Well, the Affordable Care Act was passed by both Houses of Congress and signed by a President, and as soon as the People send 218 Members of Congress and 60 Senators to Washington to repeal it, as long as a President sits in the White House who will sign a repeal Bill, it will be repealed.
Not before.
Thank a Republican.
Is that court order signed by one of the judges who got into law through CA’s “no standards for the bar” changes?
Oh, forgot, CA’s “lawyers” will get even worse than they are now (if that is possible).
I thought the expiration of the bailouts was built-in to Ebolacare.
Finally maybe Americans might realize that we are a communists nation. They have total control over the MSM, Democrats, most Republicans, and nothing left. Waking up now may be too late. President Trump alone cannot save America.
How does that work, do you know? Wouldn't he need legislation to do that?
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Do it.. I think twitter is our weapon or maybe our playground.
I want to read that book
what is it?
“I hope Trump ignores it and withholds the subsidies.”
“How does that work, do you know? Wouldn’t he need legislation to do that?”
From the story:
“Republicans have long protested the payments, and in late 2014 the GOP-led House filed a federal lawsuit against the Obama administration, contending that the subsidies were unconstitutional because Congress had not made a specific appropriation for them. Last year a federal district court ruled in the House’s favor, and the Obama administration appealed the case to the D.C. Circuit.”
“The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ruled that a coalition of 16 state attorneys general, all of whom want to preserve the subsidies, may intervene in the appeal of a lawsuit over the fate of cost-sharing subsidies”
So, the state attorneys general can join the suit, but the D.C. Circuit did not overrule the district court that monies had to be specifically appropriated by Congress for this purpose.
In my opinion, Trump should take the position that he swore an oath to uphold the constitution, and without congressional appropriations for the bailouts he cannot spend monies on them.
Most operate on the notion that the court has the last (or only) say on matters of constitutionality.
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