Posted on 12/23/2019 8:14:00 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
An appellate court ruling that struck down a key pillar of Obamacare on Wednesday amped up anxiety about the future of the law that brought health insurance to millions of Americans.
Court appeals are likely and experts say the matter probably won’t be resolved for years — creating uncertainty about the protections were built into the Affordable Care Act. Squirrel Hill resident Amy Raslevich is among the people worrying about the future of the law.
“I’m fighting cancer,” the 48-year-old University of Pittsburgh doctoral student said. “I shouldn’t have to fight Congress and the president to stay alive.”
In a 2-1 decision, the New Orleans Fifth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Wednesday ruled that the part of Obamacare requiring most people to have health insurance was unconstitutional. But the court also ordered the trial court in Fort Worth, Texas to reconsider its ruling a year ago that the entire law was invalid.
The government penalty for failing to have health insurance ended this year.
Without a personal mandate requiring coverage, insurance experts say the law would collapse. If healthier people cancel coverage, that would leave only seriously ill — and more costly members — left to insure. To remain solvent, insurance requires a pool of both healthy and ill members.
Even without such changes, it’s taken awhile for plans offered through the ACA marketplace to find pricing that works for the insurers offering them. Pennsylvania consumers who enrolled this year faced an average 4% rate increase for individual market plans and a 9.7% increase for small group plans. The 4% individual rate increase compares with trending national increases of 5-8%.
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dont forget Jonathan Gruber, the man that said “I lied to the Democrats that passed it and if they had known what was in it it never would has passed.”
Do you not understand the tactic of the left using “unassailable victim”?
You fall right into that trap.
Rush explained it well yesterday.
Go to 13:00 and learn
Same thing with Hogg, the Gold Star parents of RAT convention fame, Michael J. Foxx, etc.
sounds like fear mongering. I guess when you know you are depending on others to pay your bills it makes you nervous.
I wish I could get my work to contribute to Medi-Share but I don’t cry about it.
Forcing healthy people to buy health insurance against their will is criminal!
Huh?
Are you sure that was meant for me? I never said the government has the right to force anyone to buy anything. Stop misquoting me.
Empathy for sick people is an innate trait. Recent brain research is suggesting that the amygdala is involved.
Politics is not.
Children on the school yard have the capacity to show empathy toward each other; if they’re normal.
Instead of wasting time lecturing me, how about you take a look at the Cluster B in the DSM5.
If you can’t feel any compassion for a fellow human stricken with cancer, I am delighted not to have you in my life.
The above comment from your #12 is what brought politics into this conversation.
There is nothing wrong with empathy, I just save it for those who do not allow their afflictions to be used to manipulate me into decisions that are not in my best interests.
Oh, I forgot.
Merry Christmas to you and yours.
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