It sure ought to be.
I suspect the judge may be a conservative person and has tried to follow trumpâs dictum to destroy anything Obama related. But I donât know that for sure.
A sign of how thoroughly corrupt and insular the Washington press establishment continues to be is the fact that anyone regards Susan Collins, who manages to be both mealy-mouthed and deeply duplicitous, as an expert whose opinion is worth the time it takes to pin a microphone to her lapel.
Sheâs a liar: sheâs a tool of the McConnell machine: she serves the dark money interests at the expense of her own constituents, the suffering citizens of Maine. She betrayed the Affordable Care Act when instructed to do so by Mitch McConnell, and rationalized the betrayal with some vague blather that any decent journalist could have blown up with three or four pointed questions (only luckily for the Republicans, reporters have a kind of gentlemenâs agreement never to ask them those kinds of questions), exposing herself for the really scummy politician she has always been.
Yet the Beltway press respectfully solicits her opinion, on the topic of a piece of legislation that would have been in a considerably stronger position if she had not followed orders, and poisoned it for Mitch.
Gah.
Fuck Susan Collins.
So sheâs hoping that legislation she could not support with her vote is upheld? My âSusan Collins RAGE meterâ is going to explode.
I donât like to begin my Sunday mornings with a volley of curses, but thatâs what this article makes me feel like doing. Collins voted to kill the mandate when she went along with the GOPâs deficit-busting giveaway to their corporate overlords. She is utterly despicable.
Collins is absolutely right, there is âNo reasonâ that âall of the good provisionsâ of Obamacare canât exist without the individual mandate. In the olden days we had health insurance that was generally unaffordable without âall of the good provisionsâ in the ACA. Take away the insurance companiesâ ability to filter out people who might get sick or to deny or cancel coverage if they actually do and you have created a problem that is much worse than the one you ostensibly solved. Logic, cause and effect, not GOP strong points.
she believed the decision would be overturned.
Collins voted to confirm Roberts, Alito, Gorsuch and Kavanaugh. If the Texas decision is overturned it wonât be because the Court she helped shape supports the idea of universal health care.
Why is is so goddam hard for the GOP to do what is right?
There are many excellent legal minds weighing in on this decision. And then there is Susan Collins.
Greed.
Agreed. I love TPM, but who cares what Collins thinks about this or anything given her recent history?
Oh but he was . He has been the go to guy for that reason. The same reason All the Kochsucker Goverors and other who lied to our faces during the election telling us how they were all about preserving "preexisting conditions and yet not one of the sleasy weasles dropped out of the lawsuit . The pricks are all doing the happy dance now . Remove peoples health care ? Whatâs not to like
On August 21, 2016, OâConnor issued a ruling against the Obama administration dealing with the governmentâs interpretation of Title IX rules. The guidance from the White House was issued in May 2016, and addresses the Title IX requirement that schools receiving federal funding not discriminate against students on the basis of sex. The ruling required that transgender students be allowed to use the bathroom that corresponds to their gender identity. OâConnor ruled that the new guidelines did not receive proper notice and comment prior to publication, and that Title IX and its implementing regulation are ânot ambiguousâ as to the âplain meaning of the term sex as usedâ. As such, he issued a nationwide injunction preventing them from being enforced with respect to studentsâ access to âintimate facilities.â[3]
On December 31, 2016, in a separate case, OâConnor issued a preliminary injunction against enforcement of the Obama administrationâs regulations implementing Section 1557 of the Affordable Care Act (prohibiting sex discrimination in federally funded health programs) as a likely violation of the Religious Freedom Restoration Act and what he said was an improper inclusion of gender identity discrimination.[4]
On October 5, 2018, OâConnor ruled that the Indian Child Welfare Act was unconstitutional.[5]
On December 14, 2018, OâConnor ruled that the Affordable Care Act was unconstitutional.[6][7] OâConnor ruled that the individual mandate was unconstitutional by saying â[the] Individual Mandate can no longer be fairly read as an exercise of Congressâs Tax Power and is still impermissible under the Interstate Commerce Clauseâmeaning the Individual Mandate is unconstitutional.â[6][8] This is in reference to National Federation of Independent Business v. Sebelius which ruled that the individual mandate was constitutional because of the tax penalty. The penalty was removed by Congress in 2017. The ruling was deemed likely to be appealed.[6] According to Nicholas Bagley, law professor at the University of Michigan, the Affordable Care Act would likely remain in effect throughout the appeals process.[6] President Donald Trump commended the ruling on Twitter.[9][10][11]
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I think we are OK, she did not express her CONCERN about the impact of this decision on the ACA.
Collins: âI Thinkâ Judgeâs OâCare Decision âWill Be Overturned On Appealâ
Oh Gawd!.. 
Please, just go away!
This Maine Senator has proven over and over again,
that sheâs zero degree separated from the corrupt Trump-GOP systems.
I have no time to say more bad things about Susan Collins. So onward and downward with OT things like Trump has decided in his very good brain that itâs against the law to make fun of him on a comedy show:
And of course anyone that knows how these things works knows that you need a very large risk pool to cover people with pre-existing conditions without raising their rates or excluding them from coverage. That is what the individual mandate is about.
PLUS younger people or people with low incomes can get hit by a bus or get a long term chronic illness like cancer, leukemia, asthma⌠without warning.
ALSO of COURSE itsâ going to hit people with incomes of $50,000 or less the most. Most of the people with higher incomes are going to be covered by their employer.
These things are VERY basic policy issues. She wants all the âgoodiesâ of ObamaCare without having it pay for and sustain itself. It doesnât work that way.
Yes, Donnie, everyone is colluding against you.
Hahahaha!
P.S. just because you are paranoid doesnât mean that they arenât after you.
After a lifetime of being surrounded only by people who told him what he wanted to hear, Dotard took a very wrong turn. We pay for it, but at least we get to see him suffer.
Sheâs the new John McCain. Sheâs invited on the Sunday shows when the media needs to pretend theyâre bagging a âmoderateâ in response to any issues that run afoul of her party. Her words are meaningless because sheâs really just another water carrier for the the ultimate corruption in the Senate led by Mitch McConnell, and often in coordination with the White House.
I have the same reaction to her constant bullshit as you do. GAH.
And alsoâŚSHUT UP, SHUT UP, SHUT UP, COLLINS!!! Canât wait until she gets turfed out of office in 2020 to someone that really knows how to stand up for womenâs rights. Sheâs been getting away with that canard for way too long.