Discussion: 4.7 Million Could Lose Obamacare Subsidies After Court Decision

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assuming it could get thru a state legislature, what more would have to be done beyond copy, paste, rename of federal exchange for that state?

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Where o where are you today. Silence is golden.

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So Republicans just took health insurance away from 4.7 million Americans, because they loath 47% of America for having the audacity to be the working poor? Doesn’t fit on bumper sticker but works in Ads, throw in a little ‘activist Judge’ and you hit Ad pay dirt.

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Except they won’t, just yet, because the full court has a 7 - 4 Dem majority, so could we stop with the hair on fire, already?

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You do realize the full court will probably overturn this decision. And next, answer me this; Why is the right so against people having access to both affordable health insurance and healthcare? Why are you so enamored of the previous status quo that was going to drive healthcare cost up to 25% of GDP, a economically unsustainable number, and a number which makes us less competitive globally and certainly was not delivering better healthcare outcomes.

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Also? TPM? Please make sure to blare the 4th Court’s decision as HUGE WIN FOR OBAMACARE. Otherwise, your click-bait attempts become much too obvious.

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And yet, at least 75% of those people will either vote republican or not vote at all.

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I see the Republicans are continuing the strategy of kicking Americans in the face.

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“4.7 Million Could Lose Obamacare Subsidies After Huge Court Decision”

Huge Court Decision???

2-1, one judge, (Randolf is not even active, and has been replaced by Obama appointee, Sri Srinivasan) is a Huge Court Decision???

The full court is made up of 7 Democratic appointees / 4 Republican appointees with the chief being a Clinton appointee.

Meanwhile, The 4th Circuit just handed down it’s decision in a similar case challenging Obamacare subsidies in the federal exchanges. It reached the opposite conclusion and upheld the subsidies.

Why isn’t THAT a Huge Court Decision???

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It’s likely that SCOTUS will have the final say on this, and I don’t know how that’ll pan out.

For now, it will more important to watch Congress. As I understand it, this could be a quick legislative fix, if it were not for intransigence in the House. If the House refuses to act (Or attaches unpalatable strings), The Dems can pummel them with it in November. It’s almost August now…The election is pretty close, and this will generate a lot of press exactly where the Dems want it - In the red states that refused to establish their own exchanges.

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Every circuit has a shot at this before it gets to the Supreme Court. So far the 9th and 4th Circuits have ruled to contrary.

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You don’t know how the SupremeCorporation K-RATS will decide?

Those guys have already gotten their memos from the KochBoys.

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[quote=“TopCat, post:4, topic:7297, full:true”]
So Republicans just took health insurance away from 4.7 million Americans, because they loath 47% of America for having the audacity to be the working poor? Doesn’t fit on bumper sticker but works in Ads, throw in a little ‘activist Judge’ and you hit Ad pay dirt.
[/quote] Well, more accurately from mostly white, dirt-poor living in republicant voters in red-states. Nobody cares about “them”.

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Fox News Headline: “4.7 million Americans lose health insurance under Comrade Obama”.