the obamacare insurgency is in it’s last throes.
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Why did not court not just compel the states to go ahead and set up exchanges as mandated by the law?
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Did we have the votes for universal health care? If so, can you please take a few minutes to list all the names of the members of Congress that would have voted for it?
But, yeah, this is exactly what Obama gets. Stick it to Obama!!!
Meanwhile there are those of us that now have health insurance with some aid from subsidies and this ruling threatens that. But who cares.
Take that Obama!
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Actually, the language is clear, but it is also clear that it was a flat out drafting error, the omission of a few words by the staffers who wrote the provision in question.
Once the en banc review process is complete (either by them granting and rehearing the case or denying review), there will obviously be four votes to grant cert if it gets to the Supreme Court. And it is highly likely that Roberts will be onboard with them this time, though it’s not inconceivable they could lose Kennedy.
time and again he sets himself up to fail and acts surprised. shrug.
Because a) the law doesn’t require states to set up exchanges b) the issue of whether states should be required to set up exchanges wasn’t before the court and c) if that issue had been before them, they wouldn’t have done it because the law doesn’t require states to set up exchanges.
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If the Dems were looking for issues guaranteed to GOTV this November (Are they? I guess they are, what with all the big talk on Fox and among Republicants generally about taking over the Senate.), this certainly qualifies.
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I know, right? I still want my goddamn unicorn!
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I was thinking the same about Kennedy. He’s not going to be easy to roll on this one, regardless his vote on the 2012 case.
Yeah, like when he got elected. Twice.
And pushed the repeal of DADT.
And helped pass the ACA.
And got bin Laden.
And the push against nuclear weapons in Syria.
Or Iran ending it’s nuclear policy.
Those times and times again.
shrug.
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…and it better fart glitter too!!!
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Probably because they can’t compel states to do that. The Supreme Court also found that the federal government cannot compel states to expand Medicaid, even as a condition of continuing to receive federal Medicaid funding they were already getting.
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Just great!!! Now we have all three branches of government not working. No leadership political courts and stalled judiciary.
did he even TRY to get the votes for universal health care? I love how all of obama’s defenders point over and over again to the crazy right wingers and say that he’s powerless to do anything substantial. this is why generations of people will get / are cynical about politics - because he ran on a platform of “CHANGE” and after 6 years there is little real change to show for it.
I’m not happy about this decision and i’m not saying it’s good to “stick it to Obama” - what i’m saying is that i’m not surprised. hopefully this will get overturned on an appeal or something.
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Single payer is coming drail…it’s coming…
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We need a new compact with the Red states…let them live under their own philosophy. Maintain the safety net in the Blue states and let the Red states keep their federal tax dollars and let’s move on please. There are two Americas and you can’t force them to live together under the same rules. So let Red America destroy itself.
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Can’t have change without compromise. That is called democracy. We have plutocracy. There is a big difference. Both parties are under this umbrella.
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and by the way, this is why it should be a VERY HIGH priority to get dem judges confirmed - this is another thing that obama wasted time on for many of the initial years of his presidency. They are shaping the country in more ways than people know.
En banc review will happen and the democratic majority will likely apply the rule of statutory construction that says you don’t apply a construction that would lead to an absurd result. Even if they don’t they’re likely to stay enforcement pending final review. Meanwhile, in congress, a correction bill should be introduced to fix the problem. The political fallout from this should reasonably fall on the republican state legislatures that rejected the federal exchanges and the the republican lawmakers who probably won’t allow an easy fix to the law. I know things are not usually reasonable, but there should be a way to press the point here.
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They simply must go for an en banc ruling.
Also Republicans at each and every level of government are evil little shits who deserve nothing but scorn and derision.
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