Listen the GOP here in Texas is probably celebrating and they are so fucking stupid because they just signed their death warrant.
Tough, but fair.
Thanks for that. I was starting to feel my blood boil over this shit. Iâm so so sick of these extreme numbnuts trying to pull crap like this over and over again. It gets so tiring. The level of corporate greed, personal self-interest and politically targeted malevolence in taking away a fundamental right from the American people has been frankly exhausting.
I was just watching a discussion on immigration where the fucking government is actually writing numbers on peopleâs arms at the border. I guess those fuckers forgot to bring their tattoo gun. I know we won lots of seats in the House and tRump is finally on the ropes but some days I still canât stomach whatâs happening in this country and I have to excuse myself from the news of the day. Iâll admit, its too damn much for me.
Gotta a new dog, ralph. Time to walk him before he pleasantly drives me nuts. Thatâs a good kind of crazy at least.
Is that covered?
This seems so out of step. Even the GOP faithful seem to have calmed down on ACA, now that their efforts have made it expensive and less stable.
hahahahaha Depends - is it a pre-existing condition?
This news was all over other political websites last evening (TPM again coming late to the party). Iâve had time to panic and then read wiser commentary about how this will not only backfire for the GOP, but never be upheld. However, it will cause confusion and worry for millions of Americans.
Yay! Enjoy your new doggie!
60+ attempts in Congress to invalidate Obamacare. 3 Supreme Court cases upholding it.
When the hell are they going to give it up and start doing something useful? Oh, wait. Itâs the GOP.
@tena
âStupidity cannot be cured. Stupidity is the only universal capital crime; the sentence is death. There is no appeal, and execution is carried out automatically and without pity.â
- Robert Heinlein
So yes, it is a pre-existing condition.
Ken Paxton should be the first to go if weâre looking for the solution to stupidity.
However there are two silver linings here - this is going to wreak havoc on the GOP here. It really is - we will use it to kill them in 2020. And maybe this will lead to single payer.
But itâs highly possible this decision doesnât stand.
No, they are worse than that.
They live for the perks of power. And donât care who they step on to get those perks.
Care about policy? No.
Care about people? No
Care about the country? No
Just the perks.
You know whatâs ironic? My premiums in Chicago rise and my networks get narrower every year. My friends in Austin enroll in a single cheap class at a community college every semester and they get inexpensive student access to great BCBS coverage. (I have a friend with cancer who is fully covered by this plan.)Their families are covered too. You donât even have to pass the class, and some are on line.
So Texas inhibits ACA, beats the drum against socialized medicine and winds up with great state sponsored health insurance. And my friends have enjoyed the classes too, for the most part.
Leave it to Texas, a state with some of the worst health disparities and a maternal death rate as bad as a developing nation.
By the judges logic wouldnât the health insurance provided for 170 million Americans through the tax code by their employers be also unconstitutional?
Would the Massachusetts version of the ACA passed by Mitt Romney in 2006 also be unconstitutional as well as other states where there is a individual mandate?
Texas is weird that way. We have a bunch of progressive laws and programs locally and then we show this fucking fascist face to the rest of the country. It sucks so bad.
First thing my husband said when this was announced last night was: I guess this makes taxes unconstitutional.
Judge Reed âGrinchâ OâConnor says Merry Christmas to all you people with pre-existing conditions and all you people in genteel poverty who have health care coverage due to the Medicaid expansion.
Indeed. Iâm betting there is panic in the the GOP, what with the moronâs investigations and the stock market tanking. I see this as the ultimate in âbe careful what you wish for.â Luckily, Bart McRapey can hide behind Roberts on this one. It would serve them right if the SC didnât save their asses.
Some background .
âJudge Reed OâConnor: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Knowâ
The timing couldnât be more evil, more sadistic. More Repuglican.
O they are going to pay.
- âAs I predicted all along, Obamacare has been struck down as an UNCONSTITUTIONAL disaster!â Trump tweeted. âNow Congress must pass a STRONG law that provides GREAT healthcare and protects pre-existing conditions.â
Proceed, Doofus. You could have done this at any time since you controlled both houses of Congress, but you didnât. One constraint is that you had no plan, and another is that your party doesnât want to do it. Now, however, if this thing stands, you will own it. We know that youâll blame someone else, because you always blame everyone else, but rest assured: you will own this.