Discussion: Why The Supreme Court's Latest Move Is So Troubling For Obamacare

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Very handsome picture of the President.

I am so disgusted with this country and the lazy electorate not interested in voting yet complaining about all that is wrong.

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All the more reason for Pres. Obama to dig his heel into McConnell’s adam’s apple and never let up.

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The hackiest SCOTUS in history was waiting for a Republican congressional majority to maximize the FUBAR.

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Ginnie’s whispering into Clarence’s ear as we speak.

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Any outside chance the liberal justices asked for the review to stem the lawsuits in the lower courts?

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If SCOTUS overturns the subsidies on the federal exchange, it creates a huge political problem for the Rs. It is one thing to cut the law off at the knees before it went live which is what the 2012 decision would have done. It is another thing to throw approximately 10 million people back into the uninsured pool. Those 10 million people have friends and families who are going to be mad so there will be a multiplier effect of 3-4 times on the number of pissed off voters. We will be 6 months from the Iowa caucuses when the decision comes and the Rs are the anti-Obamacare party so they will own this.

Boehner and McConnell are holding their show vote on repeal but both are realists and have said more than once the ACA isn’t going anywhere. There will be incredible pressure to fix it and fast which won’t be easy b/c the Ted Cruz wing is going to oppose it. All in all, if it weren’t for the pain caused to the newly uninsured it might actually be fun to watch.

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…with many of those going into the uninsurable pool.

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Maybe if Mr. Most Transparent Administration Evah had not done so much of the Obamacare planningsbehind closed doors with his mega campaign donors it would not need to be reviewed in such an unusual way.

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Has there ever been a Supreme Court case decision that so altered the legislative landscape before? This would entail a huge reallocation of funds, and upend millions of people’s insurance.

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Is there any chance the DC court will go ahead with the en banc hearing anyway?

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Fuck off troll

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What is the over/under on the number of states that confront the problem ahead of time and either set up their own exchange or certify that federal exchange is their state exchange?

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Who care if it goes against the rules they set for themselves or not; they can just make new rules for themselves to fit what they want to do. It doesn’t matter whether the lower courts all agree with one another or not. The lower courts are not the kings here the SC is.

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Can someone give me a good reason for these people to serve for life??? regardless of their political leanings?

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The en banc will be upheld. The strum und drang over Obama’s (media churned memes) weakness and potential loss of policy achievements is horse shit.

The L. A. Times is hand wringing about the perceived weakness abroad, because the GOP won the senate, crap like that.

One look at his statement on FTN about immigration and watch bully pulpit at work, firmly placed in the ship of state wheel house.

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Perhaps the Court doesn’t want to ax the subsidies. Perhaps they took the case because they want to kill the Obamacare lawsuits once and for all. Declare it constitutional again and end the fight over healthcare.

I could just be a Pollyanna.

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Strum und drang…cool!

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There’s no reason they shouldn’t and it’s a separate circuit and case.

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“If the justices are convinced the statute is ambiguous, longstanding legal precedent suggests they would grant deference to the agency that is implementing the law.”

Not this Court. The conservatives on this court have a long record of making political decisions and constructing a legal rationale to justify it.

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