Obamacare begins to unravel

Yahoo ^ | 11/12/14 | Rick Newman

[TangledUpInBlue]

There was strong opposition to Medicare before it went in to effect in 1965, but after that, the health program for seniors quickly became an accepted and even popular part of the U.S. medical system.

Supporters of the Affordable Care Act, President Obama’s bold health reform law, often highlight the similarity to Medicare in terms of initial opposition. But Obamacare, as the ACA is known, is hardly catching on like Medicare did (at least not yet). In fact, the law suddenly seems more threatened than at any time since it was passed in 2010, and it’s now possible the whole unwieldy program could collapse.

Three things happened during the first 10 days of November that amount to a major downgrade in the prognosis for Obamacare. First, Republicans won a majority of seats in the Senate, giving them control of both houses of Congress. Second, the Obama administration sharply lowered its estimate for how many people will enroll in Obamacare in 2015. Third and probably most important, the Supreme Court agreed to hear a sleeper legal case that could have devastating consequences for Obamacare if the justices side with the plaintiffs.

[MrEdd]

An opportunity for Ted Cruz to follow the will of the public, and humiliate Bone head and McStain? The ball would absolutely get rolling because I can’t see Cruz passing that opportunity up.

[Grampa Dave]

You understand the core of Obozo and his thugs in the outhouse and fellow traitors in congress.

[Vaduz]

With the news of Gruber’s statements ObamaCare may be deboned by the supreme court.

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

All Gruber’s statements do is affirm Chief Justice Roberts’ holding that ObamaCare is a tax.

But since the law’s provision that everyone would have to buy insurance but only state exchange plans would get subsidized intended to bully state-level politicians into acquiescence, it was “not a bug, it was a feature.” It was only when 34 state governments called the feds’ bluff that it turned into an embarrassment, motivating the administration to try to backpedal away from its original ultimatum.

There’s no way SCOTUS can let the administration arbitrarily - and expensively - rewrite a bill after it was passed, signed, and even validated by SCOTUS itself. Not and retain the appearance that we have a rule of law - which, after all, is the very reason for the existence of SCOTUS.