Posted on 07/11/2019 5:42:55 AM PDT by DoodleDawg
The threat to do away with Obamacare is once again on the rise nearly 10 years after it was passed, as a major challenge to the health care law got a sympathetic-sounding hearing in a federal appeals court this week.
If the case does ultimately reach the Supreme Court, and five justices agree to strike down the Affordable Care Act, experts say it would upend the U.S. health care system and strip health insurance from an estimated 20 million people. Many millions more would lose crucial protections they might need in case of catastrophic medical issues ― including coverage for those with preexisting conditions.
Republicans in the U.S. Senate don’t appear to be sweating the likelihood of such a scenario, however. Some are pinning their hopes on the courts to reject the challenge, which is backed by the Trump administration, on the grounds that it isn’t serious and is legally moot.
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The Republicans are banking all their hopes on Roberts voting to uphold it again. But with all the changes to the individual mandate and all I don't think he can uphold again using the same twisted logic. I think there is a real chance that this will be struck down in June of next year. And unless the Republicans have a ready response then it is a tailor made issue for the Democrats.
No plan is what the government had for 200 years and it worked pretty well.
With the correct video and adoption files Roberts will see his way clear to wherever he is told.
Roberts has his orders.
He will rewrite again if necessary.
All that is just ridiculous nonthinking based on Free Republic dogma.
Roberts killed Obamacare by finding the weak legal link that was then congressionally removed and killed Obama care.
Roberts saw that to be permanent, there must be congressional action to right the legislative wrong.
That has happened
Democrats all know it and are back in their salons plotting new healthcare debacles.
It does seem like a futile effort. If anything Roberts has drifted even further left.
Republicans might, but the republcian uniparty leaders do not.
True. But government changed that. If we're going back to it then the Republicans need to be able to show how it is in everyone's best interest. Right now they don't have a coherent message.
That’s what I was thinking. Asking what is the plan if it is struck down is the wrong question. They are making the assumption that there should be a government “plan” - they are trying to keep obamacare, just maybe in another form. The answer is there is no plan because they will take their time and re-evaluate if there even should be a government plan. (hint, I’m fairly certain the answer to that is “No!”)
Obamacare won’t be repealed, because it can’t be repealed - or, more exactly, it can’t be repealed without ushering in huge Democratic majorities in the House and the Senate.
Members of Congress don’t know much, but they can count votes like a pimp in a whorehouse can count money.
Yes, the voters “hate Obamacare and want it repealed”. That is absolutely true.
It’s also true that they want the ability to buy insurance for pre-existing conditions, want insurance companies to be forbidden to cancel policies for non-payment, want zero payment at the point of service, want their adult children who are smoking dope in a dive in Oakland to stay covered, want their States to expand Medicaid without taxes going up, and so on.
In other words, the only two things they hate about Obamacare are paying for it, and the name.
Republicans in Congress understand this perfectly well, which is why there’s no plan.
And, not coincidentally, Obamacare (and Romneycare) were the culmination of fifty years of “reform”, all of which had the purpose of destroying the private sector or making it impossible for the private sector to function, except for boob jobs and a few other things. And, by 2009, the mission was largely accomplished.
Obamacare was merely a temporary mop-up operation, until full nationalization was possible.
And now, it is.
Like Nixon to China, Trump will propose single payer within the year. It’s really the only way out at this point.
And before you accuse me of favoring it, realize that it will destroy a lifetime of work for me. I don’t like it - I hate it.
But it’s coming, because it’s what the voters, bless their pointy little heads, want.
Government having the plan is the problem.
But it can be found unconstitutional, which is what is before the 5th Circuit currently.
Like Nixon to China, Trump will propose single payer within the year. It’s really the only way out at this point.
He promised last month he would announce his plan by mid-August. So we'll see.
Since when must the government “have a plan” for my health care?
My plan for them: stay away from my plans, i.e. don’t mandate what I must buy, don’t mandate what insurance must offer, don’t mandate how my medical records must be kept, don’t mandate that my personal medical information be turned over to anyone without my written consent for each occurrence, etc.
Balderdash
Yup. So how do they solve it?
sounds like we have an electorate problem ...
Strip health care from 20 million illegal aliens you mean?
Strip health care from 20 million illegal aliens you mean?
You’re such a useless troll.
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