At least the Courts have not been overrun by Trump’s legion of idiots.
Not yet. But wait for Gorsuch!
Well, thanks, Marco Rubio, for doing your part to kneecap the ACA so that people like me lose my insurance. Glad to know the senator has my best interest at heart.
Rubio couldn’t get a job anywhere outside of government and bellies up to the public trough. Loser!
There are HUNDREDS of open federal judge positions that Obama could not get filled due to the scorched-earth opposition from McConnel and the Republicans in the Senate.
Most never even got out of comittee to get a vote on the floor.
These positions will be STUFFED with the most rabid, pro-business, anti-progressives that the Orange Shit-Gibbon can find and they will be rubber-stamped by the Republican Senate (and I expect a shit-load of “recess appointments” by Hair Trump too.)
And what the repubs will say in a million ways: This proves Obamacare is faulty.
Republicans were stiffing vendors before The Rump made stiffing vendors cool.
Shitgibbon doesn’t know any judges. When it comes to things outside his sphere of knowledge (women with big boobs, big, gaudy hotels, and golf courses), he depends upon his craven alt-right GOP henchmen to tell him what to do.
I’m beginning to understand why GOP governors were so resistant to the Medicaid expansion. They fully intended to send Republicans to Washington, who they expected and actively wanted to welch on the deal.
" Total political decision… activist judges …
When people get better lives … BLAME THESE GUYS ! — sad "
Oh …wait –
Little Rubio: I believe in small government and self-insurance. People should just treat themselves with herbs grown in your neighbor’s backyard.
Do these jerks EVER look further ahead than their…whatevers??? They just rush to do damage and screw whatever comes next? Geezzzz…how much INSURANCE could they have provided for $200 million?
Trump: I think this means that I won. I think so.
Agree khaaannn. Fortunately, Obama was able to get many federal judge positions filled prior to the GOP taking over the Senate in 2014. Thanks to Harry Reid getting rid of the fillibuster for lower court appointments. Still, these current open seats are troubling.
Obviously the government is at fault and liable; however any insurance company or individual who relies on the US Government to keep its word is either stupid or naĂŻve.
Yes. Not yet, as you said.
Wait until Hair Furor nominates the “Flynn the Younger” [of "PizzaGate infamy] or some such luminary, to a Federal Court of Appeals bench.
–>Does Becky DeVos have siblings who went to law school?
To me this has been one of the most underreported stories in the media (not on this site, of course). The deliberate and repeated R efforts to sabotage the law (while crowing to the public that premiums are going up). De-funding the risk corridors without having the votes to actually repeal the ACA is like buying a plane from Lockheed and then zeroing out the DoD budget for acquiring planes, saying sorry, thanks for the plane but we are not paying – a straight breach of contract.
So much for the pro-business, fiscally responsible conservatives.
@wagonmound: actually, I think Medicare has done pretty well at keeping their word while maintaining a 3% admin overhead. And it may take some time, but unless they’re blocked by activist legislators, the feds pay their bills.
A case where Republicans screwed over the country by not allowing basic enabling legislation and/or funding that would be necessary to carry out the various rules set forth in a large health insurance law.
They then say how it fails and must be repealed (and uh replaced or something).
"“Refusing to pay is a shabby way to treat insurers, which entered the exchanges in reliance on the federal government’s promises,” Bagley wrote at the blog, Incidental Economist. “Our president, however, has a track record of stiffing business partners. I wouldn’t be surprised if he signed a law doing just that.”
I have a cunning plan…have the folks who blocked pay the $200M…