Discussion: TX Federal Judge Rules Obamacare 'Invalid,' Appeals Sure To Follow

Ain’t that the truth. I’m a university employee in the Chicago area and, this year, they removed all of the university hospitals, specialists, centers, etc. from our health insurance networks. For faculty members (at least in the humanities and social sciences), our salaries aren’t that great, but we’ve always had other perks, including access to a range of good benefits. Not so much any more . . . .

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What’s wrong is these “judges”, including those on SCOTUS, all hang out at the same weekend retreats.

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Not over being furious.

The Republicans have had 10 years to come up with something better to replace the ACA.

They’ve come up with nothing but much much worse.

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And that goes for the rest of the GOP - they dared to campaign during the midterms saying they support health care- if they don’t fix things fast, they’ll be going into the 2020 election as the party sentencing people to death because only profits matter.

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O i agree.

Paxton headed a group of 20 states, so it wasn’t just us. But I agree it’s infuriating. It’s horrible. I am not over being mad either.

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Yes there is one HMO that I can buy that gives me access to the big Advocate hospital near me, and it’s good. But I can’t buy insurance that will be accepted at the UofC, Rush, or Northwestern. They don’t take individual plans.

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They can’t fix shit now.

We’ll fix it. And the senate better fucking cooperate.

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This ruling could accelerate the tanking of the stock market. The growth in health care businesses has been steady since the ACA was passed - and it has been a major job creator as well. If this ruling stays in place, the growth in the health care industry will come to a screeching halt and begin to turn backwards.

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If the SC doesn’t kick this out and the ACA falls, Dems will take the Senate and the Presidency in 2020.

The problem is a LOT of people will suffer in the interim.

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Mc Turtle is happy to be stuffing the courts with fascist judges to undo all of PBO’s progressive work. He certainly is not worried about KY losing health care.

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Ah, er Judge O’Clowner, maybe you should read the National Federation of Independent Business v. Sebelius decision.

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Unfortunately, I’d be very surprised if the R’s end up having to be identified with this ruling (much though there are probably many of them who privately support it). This is just one RW judge in Texas, not a party-wide endorsement for a policy position.

The R’s want to talk about repeal of Obamacare, not actually do it (and be stuck with the political results).

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Thanks for that - right now my blood is boiling over this ruling. Two of my sisters have pre-existing conditions so I take this very personally.

I hope Nancy adds “enhanced healthcare reform” to her agenda - and if the ACA is not constitutional, then we need single payer.

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Among the many stupidities of this desperate inability to accept the ACA, the face-palm-smacking stupidest has to be this: the individual mandate that is at the core of the dispute here is a conservative idea. It was originally hatched in and around places like the Heritage Foundation, and its purpose is basically to find some way, any way, to save the current medical-insurance industrial complex from what they expected would otherwise be an inevitable long term movement towards a single payer system.

And if it had been set up by anyone other than That Dreadful Black Man, I suspect it would be warmly embraced by the GOP.

Well, okay, same would hold true if it was HillaryCare. But anyone else

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Well allrighty then srfromgr! I am as happy for you as a kid who has just been given a puppy and a shot of espresso.

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boy howdy I wish that was an option here

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I don’t think the current crop of Republicans is smart enough to avoid owning this lock, stock and barrel. Like trump yesterday, they’ll be celebrating the damage done to Obama’s legacy - and when the Democrats in the House propose a fix, they’ll fall all over each other fighting it tooth and nail.

They’ll generate so many audio and video clips that they won’t be able to convince anyone except the most delusional of trump supporters in 2020 that they really support coverage for pre-existing conditions, etc.

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O I think you are dead wrong about that. For one thing we will make sure they know. But everyone involved on the plaintiff’s side are Repuglican AGs.

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I remember when the insurance companies and their lobbyists were wringing their hands under W at all the horrible rules they had to endure that were killing their business - one or two real journalists took a look and showed them to be making record profits that got higher every year.

It is utterly insane to have a middleman between the doctor and the patient that we PAY for services - and get no service from.

No other business would survive such terrible practices towards paying customers.

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Me too! In Austin, solo practice lawyers we know are also community college students. Here, in IL, because the state has its own exchange, students are encouraged to use it. There is no CC health insurance per se.

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