Let’s say that regardless of the number of pages that it took to write Obamacare, Obamacare boils down to the unconstitutional individual mandate. After all, all that the corrupt uniparty thieves ever wanted with Obamacare was a new source of unaccountable tax revenues, regardless that the states have never expressly delegated to the corrupt feds the specific power to tax and spend for INTRAstate healthcare purposes.
“Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States.” —Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
"State inspection laws, health laws, and laws for regulating the internal commerce of a State, and those which respect turnpike roads, ferries, &c. are not within the power granted to Congress [emphases added]." -Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
”From the accepted doctrine that the United States is a government of delegated powers, it follows that those not expressly granted, or reasonably to be implied from such as are conferred, are reserved to the states, or to the people. To forestall any suggestion to the contrary, the Tenth Amendment was adopted. The same proposition, otherwise stated, is that powers not granted are prohibited [emphasis added].” —United States v. Butler, 1936.
Same evil as Al Gore’s unconstitutional carbon tax.
But note that one of Trump’s earliest official actions as president was to order key federal agencies basically to not enforce the individual mandate, the cornerstone of Obamacare, effectively starving Obamacare to death.
Trump gets rid of the stupidest part of Obamacare
So Trump has effectively repealed Obamacare using executive power actually supported by Obamacare. We’re just waiting for Obamacare to fall over dead.
Corrections, insights welcome.
Trump has not effectively done anything to Obamacare. It’s still there along with the prohibition on interstate marketing of health insurance, bundling of health care options that many of the insured have no need for and a failure to stop illegals from gaining access.