The ACA cannot survive economically without the individual mandate.
Yes, by accepting the nonsensical argument presented in the Texas case, or by revisiting the tax issue and then voting 5-4 to reverse Roberts argument in the 2012 case, or any other ideological reason they can couch in legal jargon.
It has so far. Mandate has been at a $0 penalty, and hasn’t died yet.
One important note about all this:
While SCOTUS will hear the ACA case in November, perhaps with a 6-3 hard-right majority, there will not likely be a decision for a while. In the interim, a D-controlled House, Senate and President can MOOT the case by explicitly clarifying that ACA stands without the individual mandate, or they can re-impose a mandate, or simply replace whatever SCOTUS invalidates with an identical law that overcomes whatever SCOTUS found as a flaw in the ACA.
I suspect SCOTUS – even a hard-right majority – would LOVE for this to happen so they don’t have to issue an unpopular decision that kills R politicians and their own legitimacy.
To all the Dem/ “undecided” voters in 2016 who just couldn’t bring themselves to vote for Hillary and sat out or voted 3rd party…F. U.
All of your dreams of progressive reform just died with RGB and the packing of the Supreme Court.
You screwed the rest of us out of (3) Justices and possibly 4 (Thomas retires in next few year) that would have ensure a moderate to liberal court for at least a decade.
Was it worth it?
And remember, all of this will happen after the election. So there will be piles of stories about how democrats are just fearmongering. And if we don’t take back the senate, two years of ongoing damage to fix.
I’d support them passing it with a bare minimum majority since that’s how Mitch has been operating.
It definitely affects the budget.
Unfortunately, stupidity, ignorance, and indifference to American suffering are all pre-existing conditions of the Republican Party.
I would heartily agree but obviously it won’t matter at all to anyone. No one even pretends to have principles or honor anymore. It’s very passe. He could put Charo (yes, dating myself) on the court and they’d be fine.
The ACA goes, Roe goes, voting rights suppressed. Just how long do the Republicans think we will countenance minority rule in a republic, before we become radical and fix it?
Apparently they believe only Dems will die. At some point all of this is going bite them.
I actually hope they kill ACA. Without healthcare folks will just show up at Emergency Rooms overwhelming hospitals which will cause them to collapse. The only way for this country to survive is to have it totally collapse and then rebuilt it after the Republicans have been literally run out of town. The faster it happens the quicker things will get better.
No, what happens then is all the rest of us pay for it with higher premiums. There simply has to be a mandate for coverage, no more fucking freeloaders. For those who can’t afford insurance, that’s why we have subsidies and Medicaid.
“I’ve been on record for that — if we as a Republican Party do not come up with something other than ‘no’ on healthcare, we’ll be on the curb anyway,” he said.
No, everyone who dies or can’t get healthcare because your donors want to make more money will be on the curb (or dead). And the likelihood of Republicans “coming up with something” anytime soon is pretty slim after decades of doing absolutely nothing about healthcare other than saying no.
Judicial nullification: This is how the minority rules, exactly as conservatives planned when they realized they faced a demographic disadvantage in the future and that their reliance on a hyper-partisan base made them incapable of appealing to new voters.
According to Republicans we already are radical and they are the ones fixing it to restore our government to the control of white, male xtians as originally conceived by its founders.
Save our emergency rooms, strike down EMTALA as governmental overreach.
Nope. I believe it was @castor_troy who said the ACA has survived without a mandate.
She looks like she has a really painful flinch going on there. If thy eye offends thee, pluck it out.
It’s a bit bizarre how we went from Caribou Barbie’s word salad to The Dotard’s mangled drool.
You presume Republicans will hold hearings and not just go straight to the vote.
Confirm in haste; repent at leisure.
Not for insurance to survive, but to have a fair system that doesn’t allow freeloaders.
I still think adverse selection is a very real problem and it won’t go away until an overwhelming majority accepts the necessity of legitimate health insurance and is willing to pay the cost to promote the general welfare. Regardless, we’re both going in the same direction.