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Supreme Court Rejects Biden’s OSHA Vaccine Mandate on Private Employers; Upholds CMS Mandate
Breitbart ^ | 13 Jan 2022 | JOEL B. POLLAK

Posted on 01/13/2022 12:27:48 PM PST by conservative98

The U.S. Supreme Court blocked President Joe Biden’s vaccine mandate on large private businesses through the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) on Thursday, but upheld a Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) mandate.

The decision on the OSHA mandate was 6-3; the decision on the CMS mandate was 5-4, with Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Brett Kavanaugh joining the court’s three Democratic appointees in upholding it.

As Breitbart News reported last week, the Court had appeared skeptical of the mandates during oral arguments, especially the OSHA mandate, as Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar struggled to identify the statutory authority for imposing it.

Chief Justice Roberts had seemed particularly irritated by a comment by MSNBC anchor Stephanie Ruhle that had been retweeted by White House Chief of Staff Ron Klain, which referred to the OSHA mandate as a “workaround.”

The conservative justices seemed concerned during oral arguments about the CMS mandate’s use of the federal spending power to pressure institutions accepting Medicare and Medicare funding to comply, but the more limited scope of the mandate, at least compared to the OSHA mandate’s more blatant intrusion into the private sector, appeared to save it.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: cms; fearagenda; gettrump; johnroberts; kavanaugh; osha; tedcruz; usefulcrisis; vaccinemandate; votefraud
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To: Openurmind

Interesting comment. I’m retired on Medicare plus I pay $285 mo for secondary insurance plus a third policy for zero deductible prescriptions.
We don’t receive any unpaid benefits from Medicare. Why would we ever be subjected to this law? We have friends that have a personal doctor for 10 families. Maybe I’ll ask to join and cancel Medicare.


41 posted on 01/13/2022 1:01:58 PM PST by sanjuanbob
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To: conservative98

The court used ‘purpose’ instead of rights to make this ruling. Bad ruling. The CMS mandate should have been shot down as well.


42 posted on 01/13/2022 1:02:36 PM PST by CodeToad (Arm up! They Have!)
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To: Roccus

“IOW, will we be required to take the clot shot in order to receive other Medicare benefits?”

The ruling allows it.


43 posted on 01/13/2022 1:03:06 PM PST by CodeToad (Arm up! They Have!)
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To: virgil
Yup. Thankfully, my religious exemption was approved last November (although the "accommodation" that's now going to kick in will be annoying). But I realize I'm much better off than many healthcare workers, because my employer was very open to exemptions.

This whole thing is SO wrong...

44 posted on 01/13/2022 1:03:12 PM PST by NoLongerTrappedInNY
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To: Signalman

Pretty much all healthcare workers are “federal healthcare workers”.


45 posted on 01/13/2022 1:06:12 PM PST by Boogieman
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To: sanjuanbob

“Maybe I’ll ask to join and cancel Medicare.”

You paid into that, and you should not be denied for any reason period. I would wait until it actually comes down to that choice if it were me.


46 posted on 01/13/2022 1:08:28 PM PST by Openurmind (The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world it leaves to its children. ~ D. Bonhoeffer)
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To: conservative98

There are six practicing Catholics, one raised a Catholic and two Jews on the SCOTUS.

Maybe pope Frankie lobbied Roberts and Kavanaugh so the Catholic hospitals would not get sued for imposing the mandates in the first place.

I hear the Vatican has grown weary of paying off legal settlements.


47 posted on 01/13/2022 1:09:27 PM PST by Biblebelter
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To: Brown Bag Special

Well, they can’t. That’s why Biden had the FDA give them “full approval” even though they never met the actual requirements to receive FDA approval.


48 posted on 01/13/2022 1:09:45 PM PST by Boogieman
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To: conservative98

49 posted on 01/13/2022 1:10:03 PM PST by MrBambaLaMamba (Why allow a government of thieves, liars, braggarts, traitors, cowards and perverts? )
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To: Pollard

True, but don’t discount all the not so “open secrets” of insider trading practices, after office position deals and their favorite persuader... dirty laundry.


50 posted on 01/13/2022 1:10:08 PM PST by Brown Bag Special (Trust but VERIFY)
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To: conservative98

The actual court decision:
https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/21pdf/21a244_hgci.pdf


51 posted on 01/13/2022 1:11:19 PM PST by aimhigh (THIS is His commandment . . . . 1 John 3:23)
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To: Openurmind

Urright


52 posted on 01/13/2022 1:11:38 PM PST by sanjuanbob
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To: conservative98

Good news indeed! However, some companies still can require them which is not good news.


53 posted on 01/13/2022 1:14:55 PM PST by uzumaki_naruto
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To: Signalman

Most, if not all hospitals, have patients who have Medicare and/or medicaid - this includes private hospitals. I work for a company that does contract work with medical records for hospitals in the Northeast although many of us live in other states. Last go round, even the out-of-state never ever ever never see a patient employees were required to have the original vaxxes and a flu shot. We never even come in contact with other employees. We work from home all the time.
I am not happy about this ruling because I do NOT intend to be “boosted”. I am not sure how this ruling affects employees of hospitals or even contractors of hospitals that receive CMS (Medicare insurance reimbursements)? One of hospitals we contract with has mandated the booster by March 2022.

I await legal minds to decipher this for me.


54 posted on 01/13/2022 1:15:18 PM PST by Mrs. B.S. Roberts
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To: canuck_conservative

YAWN.


55 posted on 01/13/2022 1:15:49 PM PST by SmokingJoe
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To: throwthebumsout

Alito, Thomas, Gorsuch and Barrett voted no on both rules.


56 posted on 01/13/2022 1:17:19 PM PST by SmokingJoe
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To: conservative98
If you are health care, just. walk. out.

Crash the system.

That's how they do it in the EU, and it works.

57 posted on 01/13/2022 1:18:12 PM PST by StAnDeliver (Each of you have at least 1 of these in your 401k: Pfizer, Moderna, AstraZeneca, J&J, Merck and GSK)
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To: Boogieman

Um, no.


58 posted on 01/13/2022 1:18:21 PM PST by SmokingJoe
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To: conservative98

Bkmk SCOTUS screw-up again


59 posted on 01/13/2022 1:21:26 PM PST by ptsal (Vote R.E.D. >>>Remove Every Democrat ***)
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To: Signalman

Medicare is federally funded so maybe employees of any hospital that receives medicare reimbursements is held under the CMS mandate. After all, if one student attending a college receives a federal grant that college has to follow all fed rules.


60 posted on 01/13/2022 1:22:20 PM PST by who_would_fardels_bear (This is not a tagline.)
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