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Why Obamacare Will Survive Even a Republican President
Newsweek ^ | 03/29/2015 | BY HENRY J. AARON

Posted on 03/30/2015 5:36:54 PM PDT by SeekAndFind

Anniversaries are times for taking stock. And so it is with the Affordable Care Act—a.k.a., the ACA or Obamacare.

Now, at the time of the fifth anniversary of the law’s passage, the law remains in existential jeopardy. The Supreme Court is considering whether the law, as drafted, permits payment of tax credits in the 34 states that use HealthCare.Gov as their administrative agent. These credits make insurance affordable and the law sustainable.

Should the court rule that these credits cannot be paid, millions will find insurance unaffordable. Insurance markets in most of those states will be thrown into chaos.

Congress could easily amend the law to prevent these consequences. Alas, partisan gridlock makes such legislative action unlikely. A Supreme Court decision disallowing the tax credits would threaten the law’s survival.

So would the election of a Republican president in 2016, given the virtually unanimous GOP opposition to the ACA. A Republican president would almost certainly seek to scale back, repeal or dismember the ACA—either directly or by empowering each state to modify the law. Allowing each state to go its own way would violate a fundamental objective of the ACA—to assure that all Americans, wherever they live, have access to insurance on similar terms.

Thus, despite having reached the age of 5, the ACA continues to live on a precipice. Nonetheless, I think the law will survive. More than 25 million people already enjoy insurance coverage as a result of the ACA. Even more will be covered by January 2017, when the next president takes office.

All major elements of the health care system—insurers, hospitals, doctors and drug and device manufacturers—have an interest in continuation of the ACA. This alignment of forces suggests that Obamacare will survive current threats.

(Excerpt) Read more at newsweek.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: obamacare; president; republican
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To: Hardens Hollow

“Do those that don’t have to submit tax returns now have to file them because of Ocare?” Perhaps someone else can give you a more definitive answer, but my understanding is that the IRS is being used to registewr everyone, even those who would not normally file.


21 posted on 03/30/2015 7:01:36 PM PDT by MHGinTN (Is it really all relative, Mister Einstein?)
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To: TexasFreeper2009

I can see him vetoing any bill to keep it alive.. But I can see the GOPe lead house and senate continuing to try and fund it.


22 posted on 03/30/2015 7:08:27 PM PDT by cableguymn (We need a redneck in the white house....)
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To: MHGinTN

“Perhaps someone else can give you a more definitive answer, but my understanding is that the IRS is being used to registewr everyone, even those who would not normally file.”

Sounds like it could be a way to keep track of our whereabouts, then. I hadn’t thought of it in those terms before.


23 posted on 03/30/2015 7:27:39 PM PDT by Hardens Hollow (Couldn't find Galt's Gulch, so created our own Harden's Hollow to quit paying the fascist beast.)
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To: Diogenesis

in case you’ve been asleep, Barack Obama won in 2012. but, this news item gives you, and other Freepers like coloforniac, the opportunity to remind us about Romneycare. who gives a pig’s nipple about Romneycare? instead, we have Obamacare, because folks like you preferred to have a muslim in the white house rather than horror of horrors, a mormon. so, i hope you are happy, because the rest of us aren’t. i hope you are paying the price in outrageous health insurance premium increases for your pig-headedness. thanks for nothin. i’m sure you can’t wait for Hillary-care to come along January 2017 to fix this nation for good.


24 posted on 03/30/2015 8:07:07 PM PDT by IWONDR
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To: IWONDR; Colofornian

You were mentioned in the post Colofornian...just good manners to ping those you mention.

And it has been shown, time and again that Romney is an elitist piece of GOP, NWO scum...only now it’s the demoncRATS who have been tarred with 0bama and 0bamacare not the Republicans.

So take the mormon pity party somewhere else...it has also been shown that Romney carried many more evangelicals and other Christian groups by a larger margin than McCain or Bush. “Thank” the Catholics and Jews.

http://www.statisticbrain.com/presidential-election-voter-statistics/

http://www.pewforum.org/2012/11/07/how-the-faithful-voted-2012-preliminary-exit-poll-analysis/


25 posted on 03/30/2015 8:23:55 PM PDT by SZonian (Throwing our allegiances to political parties in the long run gave away our liberty.)
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To: TexasFreeper2009

“Not if Ted Cruz is elected!”

He needs to come out early and state such in no uncertain terms.


26 posted on 03/30/2015 8:34:05 PM PDT by Carthego delenda est
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To: MHGinTN

“Satan will know he has only seven years left.”

As always, your posts are insightful... :)


27 posted on 03/30/2015 8:36:29 PM PDT by Carthego delenda est
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To: Carthego delenda est

Thank you, but that line of reasoning actually comes from PAtrick Wood, who has exposed the evil of Bzezinsky’s Technocratic rule now emerging after decades of Trilateral planning and creating the infrastructure they have no idea will be utilized to send them to their eternal demise.


28 posted on 03/30/2015 8:45:32 PM PDT by MHGinTN (Is it really all relative, Mister Einstein?)
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To: IWONDR

You purport that Mr. RomneyCARE was a good candidate?
wrong.

You purport that Mr. RomneyCARE did not create
socialized medcine.
wrong.

Obola has RUINED America because Mr. RomneyCARE
had his surrogates attack the Palin family in the
weeks before Election 2008, and because the same
loser gave up, GAVE UP, in 2012.


29 posted on 03/30/2015 11:06:31 PM PDT by Diogenesis ("When a crime is unpunished, the world is unbalanced.")
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To: Carthego delenda est

Did somebody just wake you up?

“Cruz also made a pitch to repeal “every word of Obamacare,” and he claimed that as a result of the law “millions … have lost their health insurance.”

He has done so before and even after this report on his announcement speech at Liberty University.


30 posted on 03/31/2015 2:44:15 AM PDT by mazda77
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