Discussion for article #236726
Ron Johnson is a fool who should be run out of the Senate. If we had even a shred of a spine in the FEC, Johnson would be in jail now for looting his company to pay his campaign debts.
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This whole thing is laughable to me. Created by the Heritage Foundation and evil because it was implemented by a Democrat. I think the Supremes will rule in favor of it because it’s by far the lesser of two evils for the Republicans.
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If they take away the subsidies, we will all see how few the numbers are of these “tea partiers” that have been controlling policy. You cant fight against giving people a benefit, but you’ll face all sorts of hell fire if you try to take it away.
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A plan put forth by the Pubbie Heritage Foundation, adopted and put into effect in Massachusetts by Pubbie Massachusetts Governor Mittens Rmoney was a grand and glorious plan until a carbon copy of the plan was adopted and put into effect by Democratic President Barack Obama. This is the point where the grand and glorious Heritage Foundation plan and Romneycare plan became the most hideous, terrible, and gruesome plan ever devised.
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So if the Supreme Court rules in favor of the suit, it might result in the states that refused to set up exchanges, rushing to set up exchanges. Which is what the law intended in the first place, before the Republicans and the Supreme Court meddled with ACA the first time, to permit states to opt out of the exchanges. Are they drunk?
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GOOD!!
If you gop-bag, trolls eliminate health insurance for millions of Americans, every single one of you MUST be kicked to the curb during the next election!!
That’s governors, senators, representatives and all other miscellanous seats currently held by gop-bags.
And, never mind thinking that your party will win the White House. That will NEVER happen!!
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Yet they WON’T BE!
I’d give them a 50/50 chance of actually being successful in demagoguing President Obama, Hillary Clinton (!) AND the Democratic Party for all terrible consequences that occur! The public is so determinately stupid that this must be an actual outcome to get ready for!
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You are correct. But, one of these days the electorate MUST wake up!
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The current SCOTUS would not dare put the GoP in such an embarrassing and unrecoverable quagmire.
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Why should anyone think that Mitch McConnell’s dysfunctional Senate would be able to do anything to fix what their politicos did to the ACA with their law suits?
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“The president is likely to veto whatever we would propose, because we don’t have a willing partner…who wants to help us kill healthcare reform of any kind let slobs go to the emergency room.”
There, fixed that for you.
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I don’t think the Supreme Court would be so politically tone deaf as to overturn the subsidies. If they did, millions more Americans will view the Supreme Court as too ideological.
The GOP has the for-sight of an amoeba – With the intelligence to match –
I believe some of the stupidest people on the planet is the American public…sadly…
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No, in 2012 the Supreme Court ruling permitted states to opt out of Medicaid expansion – a big element of Obamacare – but not the state exchanges.
States were given the option to set up their own exchange or rely on the federal exchange.
Interestingly enough, the state exchanges were a Republican idea. The House bill passed in 2009 had a single federal exchange, but Republican Senators pushed for state exchanges, arguing that local government control is best, the states are more in tune to their constituents than big bad Washington DC etc.
And so here we are: the Republicans, after pushing for state exchanges as more responsive to constituents than a federal exchange, for the most part refused to implement them, leaving states with no other option but to resort to the federal exchange.
And now, they are arguing the federal exchanges cannot lawfully dispense subsidies to their own constituents! Which leaves Red State citizens the opinion of turning to the nonexistent state exchanges, which their Republican officials have yet to activate, and which Republican Congressmen have yet to authorize with a simple amendment to the ACA language.
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Oh yeah. I remember it. It’s been a long road.
-edit- And thanks for the correction.
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I’d say your overestimating those odds. It’s a one sentence fix. They could do it in a morning. All of the other issues are side points that will come across as them trying to make political gains on the backs of their suffering constituents. Indeed, someone on the left will quickly point out that the GOP strategy is to win by being less concerned about the financial and physical welfare of their constituents than the democrats.
Not a winning hand. I’m sure the SCOTUS will bail them out, but part of me wishes that they could suffer the mess they made.
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I thought the voters would punish the GOP for holding the debt ceiling hostage, but that never happened. Not holding my breath that it will happen if the GOP lets the subsidies evaporate.
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No problem.