Posted on 12/14/2018 5:48:46 PM PST by conservative98
(Bloomberg) -- Obamacare was struck down by a Texas federal judge in a ruling that casts uncertainty on insurance coverage for millions of U.S. residents.
The decision Friday finding the Affordable Care Act unconstitutional comes just before the end of a six-week open enrollment period for the program in 2019 and underscores a divide between Republicans who have long sought to invalidate the law and Democrats who fought to keep it in place.
U.S. District Judge Reed O’Connor in Fort Worth agreed with a coalition of Republican states led by Texas that he had to eviscerate the Affordable Care Act, the signature health-care overhaul by President Barack Obama, after Congress last year zeroed out a key provision -- the tax penalty for not complying with the requirement to buy insurance. The decision is almost certain to be appealed all the way to the Supreme Court.
“Today’s ruling is an assault on 133 million Americans with preexisting conditions, on the 20 million Americans who rely on the ACA’s consumer protections for health care, and on America’s faithful progress toward affordable health care for all Americans,” California Attorney General Xavier Becerra said in a statement. A spokeswoman for Becerra said an appeal will be filed before Jan. 1.
Texas and an alliance of 19 states argued to the judge that they’ve been harmed by an increase in the number of people on state-supported insurance rolls. They claimed that when Congress repealed the tax penalty last year, it eliminated the U.S. Supreme Court’s rationale for finding the ACA constitutional in 2012.
The Texas judge agreed.
“The remainder of the ACA is non-severable from the individual mandate, meaning that the Act must be invalidated in whole,” O’Connor wrote.
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As I predicted all along, Obamacare has been struck down as an UNCONSTITUTIONAL disaster! Now Congress must pass a STRONG law that provides GREAT healthcare and protects pre-existing conditions. Mitch and Nancy, get it done!— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 15, 2018
Done with the Obamanation! If you like your legacy, you can keep it.
8 years wasted. Need better laws to prevent it from happening again.
We got rid of it!
Merry Christmas everyone!
When they prohibited interstate insurance, there was no federal jurisdiction...Interstate Commerce Clause.
DK
It was always meant to be the foot in the door to socialized medicine. That’s why it was so odious.
Sooo worth repeating......
Obamacare ...”It was always meant to be the foot in the door to socialized medicine. That’s why it was so odious.”.....
>>>Now Congress must pass a STRONG law that provides GREAT healthcare and protects pre-existing conditions. Mitch and Nancy, get it done!—
In 2017 he counted on Paul Ryan to get it done. Now he wants Mitch and Nancy to do it? Why doesn’t he release the plan he has been sitting on for 2 years.
“We’re going to have insurance for everybody,” Trump said in press conference Jan. 11. “We’re going to have a healthcare that is far less expensive and far better”
ZERO44 probably did an extra line tonight.
How does it feel you moth_ _ f_ _kers?
I like your acronym better than mine: ETBSTWO
“Erasing The Butt Stain That Was Obama”
A George W. Bush appointee...even funnier.
Yes!
ETBSTWO could also have been “erasing the BULL SHIT that was Obama.
Turn on the Hawaiian judge bat-signal!
Actually, probably don’t need him. Kavanaugh and Roberts will find a way to save it, if I’m right that both have been blackmailed.
If the Trump administration decides not to appeal the decision would anyone else have standing to do so?
The entire basis on which Roberts corruptly upheld Obamacare was that the penalty was a tax and thus covered under the taxing power. Without it, the taxing power does not apply and therefore the bill has no constitutional basis (not that it ever did.)
California and other states ruled against by the judge will likely challenge the decision by appealing in the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/obamacare-ruled-unconstitutional-by-texas-judge
I got ingrown toenails.
It’s time for Trumpsters to threaten Roberts, just like Bambi did.
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