Chief Justice Roberts singlehandedly saves ObamaCare
The Supreme Court, by a 5-4 margin, sidesteps the Commerce Clause debate and validates the individual mandate as a constitutional exercise of Congress’ taxing power.
As a result, almost all of the act is upheld, thanks to Chief Justice Roberts siding with the majority. But by saving the law through the taxation argument, the court sidesteps endorsing an expansion of the commerce clause.
Fancy judicial footwork by the chief justice, I’d say.
The four justices in the minority wanted to toss the whole thing out, which again speaks to the role that the chief justice played. He wasn’t willing to go there — too radical an outcome for him, apparently — and he found a way to avoid it.
In fact, the deeper I read in the opinion and the dissents, the more apparent it is that Roberts undertook a major rescue operation. He was not willing to let the court take what he deemed to be a radical, even partisan course that would undermine its institutional credibility.
This ruling is as much about protecting the court’s integrity as it is about interpreting the law.
Here’s the core of what justices Scalia, Kennedy, Alito and Thomas said in dissent:
“The Act before us here exceeds federal power both in mandating the purchase of health insurance and in denying nonconsenting States all Medicaid funding. These parts of the Act are central to its design and operation, and all the Act’s other provisions would not have been enacted without them. In our view it must follow that the entire statute is inoperative.”
The court majority also endorsed language expanding Medicaid in the states, although it prevents the federal government from pulling Medicaid money as punishment for states that choose not to go along. That’s the extent of the conservative “win” in the opinion.
No wonder Scalia was in such a foul mood earlier this week. I suspect that mood is going to last a good long time.
– Jay Bookman
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godless heathen
June 28th, 2012
1:14 pm
getalife: Just admit you are wrong and go on. It’s good for the soul.
Keep Up the Good Fight!
June 28th, 2012
1:14 pm
But it is not a massive tax hike on the middle class, much less the biggest tax hike in American history. The tax imposed by the individual mandate amounts to either $695 or 2.5 percent of household income for those who don’t have insurance and are not exempt based on income levels. By comparison, the payroll tax cut extension Republicans repeatedly blocked earlier this year would have added 3.1 percentage points to the tax and cost the average family $1,500 a year.
The mandate, meanwhile, would hit a small amount of Americans — somewhere between 2 and 5 percent — according to a study from the Urban Institute. The number could be even lower depending on the law’s success: in Massachusetts, the only state with an insurance mandate, less than 1 percent of the state’s residents paid the penalty in 2009.
Doggone/GA
June 28th, 2012
1:14 pm
“I no this come electon time I am not voting for Justice Roberts again”
Someone just gave themselves away as attempting to be satirical.
Curious
June 28th, 2012
1:15 pm
Oblama
June 28th, 2012
1:12 pm
JamVet “never saw a handout he didn’t like”? I don’t know about that -he hasn’t replied to your statement. What say you JamVet?
Is requiring someone to buy insurance a “handout”?
ld
June 28th, 2012
1:15 pm
What if you don’t pay taxes? What if you don’t file a tax form? What if you’ve been one of those homless people living on the street for years and/or unemployed for years? Does the penalty accrue? Can anyone bankrupt against it? Does government have the right to imprision those that cannot or do not pay this and cannot or do not pay for insurance? If you don’t get sick until you finally die, is this penalty a debt of your estate?
I see lots of challenges for this Obamacare boondoggle yet ahead.
This is a way to tax the working class more — the rich that can and do buy insurance will be unaffected.
Once the regulations are stripped from the insurance industry and the cost restrictions are stripped from the health industry, all that will be left is the “tax” on the people that have not been able to afford insurance.
Obama’s victory a victory for the employee/consumer class? NOT
Paul
June 28th, 2012
1:15 pm
Joseph
That topic has been covered numerous times on this forum.
My intent was to demonstrate that, once again, you state as fact that which you have no idea of.
Or, as been noted, the more things turn against you, the more correct you are.
shorty
June 28th, 2012
1:15 pm
From the beginning this bill has been supported by the insurance industry,AARP and the medical profession and why would they support something that works against their insane profits…look it up and then listen to Pelosi and make sure you don’t read it all..You must be like sheep and follow!
Joseph
June 28th, 2012
1:16 pm
Finn McCool (The System Isn’t Broken; It’s Fixed ~ from an Occupy sign):
Business’s operate on the bottom line. You may want a read a book on economics. If you have 50 employee’s and Obamacare will compel you to pay more in taxes and effect your bottom line you may have to let 5 folks go… Its that simple really..
Jefferson
June 28th, 2012
1:16 pm
The drama kings and queens split my sides.
Joseph
June 28th, 2012
1:17 pm
Paul:
I honestly don’t think you know…
Finn McCool (The System Isn't Broken; It's Fixed ~ from an Occupy sign)
June 28th, 2012
1:17 pm
If you make $50K a year and don’t buy insurance you have to pay a small tax of 1% which would
be a $500 penalty
$500 a year? On $50k? Come on, people!
Joseph
June 28th, 2012
1:17 pm
Paul:
Read my last post.. wink wink
getalife
June 28th, 2012
1:17 pm
The gop refused to permit witnesses from the bush administration on fast and furious.
They screwed up the investigation so now they are playing politics with the death of a border agent.
This is an over reach of epic proportions.
Paul
June 28th, 2012
1:18 pm
Joseph
See what Keep Up did at 1:14?
He did something called ‘provide a link’ that showed where he got his information from.
Try it, you probably won’t like it!
josef
June 28th, 2012
1:18 pm
PAUL
I guess I just need a new ball of yarn!
DebbieDoRight - Chocolate Coverered, Freak And Habit Forming
June 28th, 2012
1:18 pm
But unfortunately for them, the facts don’t back them up.
Shame on you Granny!! You know as well as anyone knows on this blog, little things like FACTS never, EVAH stopped a republican before!!
Vote justice Roberts out of the supreme court in Noveber
June 28th, 2012
1:19 pm
I’m getting a bumper sticker that says that.
Finn McCool (The System Isn't Broken; It's Fixed ~ from an Occupy sign)
June 28th, 2012
1:19 pm
Joseph, if you have 50 employees and have no sales, you need to let some people go — no matter the cost of health care.
If you have 50 employees and sales are booming, you should have worked out just how many employees you need to keep providing your product and making a profit — no matter the cost of health care.
Tundra Dude
June 28th, 2012
1:20 pm
Holy Cow! 900 comments….is this a Hot Button issue..?
(forgot who posted this)
people forget this came i believe from heritage foundation ….how quickly we forget
Exactly. It was also a conservative, my homie, Otto von Bismarck, who started this Commie-Care in Germany in 1883.
Have conservatives always been closet commies…??
getalife
June 28th, 2012
1:20 pm
godless,
I am always right because I don’t listen to corporate media.
mm
June 28th, 2012
1:21 pm
Watching the cons cry today. $100
Watching the cons cry in November. $1000
Watching the cons eat crow when their healthcare lies faia to materialize. Priceless.
Paul
June 28th, 2012
1:21 pm
josef
Beats a ball and chain…
Well, some of them anyways -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIQsVU6UqRk#t=00m29s
St Simons - he-ne-ha
June 28th, 2012
1:22 pm
“Watching Fox is pretty damn funny.”
well listening to Faux on the radio here, esp oxycontin Rush is not funny
‘to get rid of obamacare, we must remove Obama’ immediately
followed by “the Republican govs must KILL (emph fat boy’s) it by
refusing to act until after November!”
“KILL, KILL it, I say”
“how do we ‘redress our grievances, you know’ – a caller
now i know i’m working on my metaphors, but i didn’t see ‘vote for’
or ‘vote out’ anywhere. I see rush the ‘titular’
head of the republican pahhty has his metaphors down, though.
Stay classy, Republicons
JamVet
June 28th, 2012
1:22 pm
I say that Thursdays are not Feed the Troll days…
Or in your case, Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Fridays, as well.
I’m not a big schadenfreude kinda guy, but every once in awhile I make an exception.
Today is one of those days…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gG2naf70MbY
josef
June 28th, 2012
1:22 pm
TUNDRA
Thanks for the Bismark reminder…
Vote justice Roberts out of the supreme court in Noveber
June 28th, 2012
1:23 pm
Time 2 take R country back form the libral judges
Steve Atl
June 28th, 2012
1:23 pm
Pretty cocky group with an election coming up in a few months…enjoy your day.
getalife
June 28th, 2012
1:23 pm
rush tends to help dems around election time.
Adam
June 28th, 2012
1:24 pm
JohnnyReb: today’s ruling gives States the right to not expand their Medicare rolls without the Feds retribution. This is a huge problem for the intent of Obamacare.
Yeah right. I know red states will reject the new Medicaid expansion, and then they’ll find out the poor actually have voting power and aren’t as stupid as they like to believe.
Peadawg
June 28th, 2012
1:25 pm
“Most consumers can expect to keep seeing increases in premiums and co-payments because the underlying cost of health care is expected to rise. The law contains a few mechanisms to curb premiums, but it also requires that many insurance providers make their benefits more generous, which will raise their cost.”
But…but…I thought our premiums would go down. Obama lied again? Wow!!!!!!
DebbieDoRight - Chocolate Coverered, Freak And Habit Forming
June 28th, 2012
1:25 pm
They screwed up the investigation so now they are playing politics with the death of a border agent.
This is an over reach of epic proportions.
The Young Turks (Current) did a brief synopsis of this whole faux outrage over FnF – they detailed how Forbes(?) magazine went back over thousands of documents, testimony, and statements to find out that, drum roll please……….
FnF is nothing more than made up bullcrap!! It has never happened on the scale that the republicans allege AND only ONE officer, (the one that “ratted out the others on 60 Minutes”), was involved in it and it was HIS mistake that got that DEA Officer killed.
I’m currently checking out the facts of what they (Young Turks), are alleging and I’ll get back to you with links when I find out if what they were saying is true. If so, you have to wonder why is this singular incident, committed by a singular person, now reaching epic proporitons?
Keep Up the Good Fight!
June 28th, 2012
1:25 pm
For those looking for a justice to impeach, Gohmert in all his stupidity is suggesting that Kagan be impeached. Imagine that.
Common Damn Sense isn't Very Common
June 28th, 2012
1:26 pm
USinUK @12:47 pm
the high this weekend? a cool and comfortable 70 degrees.
———————————
Bite Me
Here in Eastern NC it will be over 100 from tomorrow through Monday
Joseph
June 28th, 2012
1:26 pm
Finn McCool (The System Isn’t Broken; It’s Fixed ~ from an Occupy sign):
Obviously you don’t understand how business will work under Obamacare(TAX)..
GT
June 28th, 2012
1:26 pm
What is the deal with CNN. Fox doesn’t surprise me not having it right they never do, but this Blitzer, King team is Saturday Night Live seven days a week. They have invented this style that reminds me why the Internet bubble exploded. They rush info ,even correct sometimes, at you so fast you can’t absorb it, they mispronounce and stammer and have video game noises that make you think Russia has attacked Miami Shores, only to find out it is some tempest in a teapot they have created.
Fox gets paid by the superpacs. They don’t need an audience but CNN claims to be in the middle and neutral. They practically handed Newt the South Carolina debate and the state of South Carolina during that primary, hosting the debates and last night they were on the air saying there was absolutely no way the court could uphold the law. Then this morning these two cable news stations, hopefully, independent of each other were the only two networks to get it wrong.
TaxPayer
June 28th, 2012
1:26 pm
SUX, drop the personal insult in your blog name please. That is not permitted here.
Republicans must really complain about my name then. Gee. I hope it’s not too offensive. hehehe
Joseph
June 28th, 2012
1:26 pm
Trey Gowdy is going at it!!!!
getalife
June 28th, 2012
1:27 pm
Pea,
If it fails, we will join the rest of the civilized world and provide single payer,.
John Birch
June 28th, 2012
1:27 pm
It’s been a great week for America. Citizens can stay unemployed while illegals get the jobs and the healthy will be forced to pay for the sick.
Joseph
June 28th, 2012
1:27 pm
Hank Johnson says he’s walking out because Withholder is black…
weetamoe
June 28th, 2012
1:28 pm
Seen the classy tweets from the DNC? Seen the vile anti-Justice Thomas tweets? Unhappy democrats, to be suffer such malignant bigotry!
Mr. Snarky
June 28th, 2012
1:28 pm
It’s a schadenfreude kind of day. Oh the humanity!
Joseph
June 28th, 2012
1:28 pm
No new TAXES is what Obama promised…. LOL… Thanks CJ Roberts!!!
Brosephus™
June 28th, 2012
1:29 pm
DDR
Fortune/CNN has that story linked. Theirs is the only one that I’ve read that stated they’ve gone through that many documents and stuff related to that case. I don’t recall any other stories on F&F that has done that. The story may have a biased intent, but it shed more light on the actual dealings of F&F than anything else I’ve read.
josef
June 28th, 2012
1:29 pm
PAUL, ZamVet
Well, if we’re going FNM on this…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UejelYnVI3U
Joseph
June 28th, 2012
1:29 pm
weetamoe:
And that guy worked in the White House.. I bet they love that….
barking frog
June 28th, 2012
1:29 pm
Well now everybody has
healthcare. Glad that’s
over.
Adam
June 28th, 2012
1:31 pm
Buy stocks in gun and ammunition companies. The crazies are about to storm them.
DebbieDoRight - Chocolate Coverered, Freak And Habit Forming
June 28th, 2012
1:31 pm
and then they’ll find out the poor actually have voting power and aren’t as stupid as they like to believe
Except In The State Of Georgia………
Sorry — had to add that caveat in there. You can never underestimate the level of stoooopid in the State of Georgia.
Remember some of them actually VOTED for a man who was thrown out of office, was in massive personal debt, AND was up on morals charges, as their Govenor.
Joseph
June 28th, 2012
1:31 pm
barking frog:
Yes and its called a TAX!!!
getalife
June 28th, 2012
1:32 pm
It’s a great day for our President and country.
Health care bill finally passes after trying for decades.
The gop house are playing politics with an agent’s death in major overreach and disrespect of the AG.
mm
June 28th, 2012
1:32 pm
“It’s been a great week for America. Citizens can stay unemployed while illegals get the jobs and the healthy will be forced to pay for the sick.”
Wingnut mentality at it’s finest.
Adam
June 28th, 2012
1:32 pm
No new TAXES is what Obama promised
Really? When?
larry
June 28th, 2012
1:32 pm
This was a very interesting article………….
A must read!
http://features.blogs.fortune.cnn.com/2012/06/27/fast-and-furious-truth/?iid=SF_F_River
GT
June 28th, 2012
1:33 pm
How is that crop getting handled by the inmates down in south Georgia?
barking frog
June 28th, 2012
1:33 pm
Joseph
Do you take your tax
return to your healthcare
provider?
Dekalb comments
June 28th, 2012
1:33 pm
John Birch @ 1:27
I am already paying for the sick through my private health insurance premiums. Providers have to cover the cost of the health care they provide to stabilize a patient in an emergency room or urgent care center. They do that by increasing the prices they charge to insurance companies. Insurance companies pass that along to the insured.
So don’t think this changes anything. In fact it encourages people, healthy or sick, to obtain insurance. But now if people have a pre-existing condition they will be able to obtain insurance. If they don’t obtain insurance there is going to be a penalty for that.
Tom(Independent-Viet Vet USAF)
June 28th, 2012
1:34 pm
Ok, let me understand this. Us taxpayers will now have to pay for the health care for those who could not afford it. If the govt pays for it, it is really taxpayers who are paying. Is this the bottom line, do not want to hear any social justice BS! Moochers(the 50% who pay no federal taxes). just got a big boost, at the middle-class taxpayers expense?
Jefferson
June 28th, 2012
1:35 pm
Denver should have never traded Tebow.
Keep Up the Good Fight!
June 28th, 2012
1:35 pm
Paul, just to give you fair warning…..boortz has said he would move to Texas if Tx would secede from union…….
I am torn. I would hate losing Texas but I also hate keeping Boortz.
Down in Albany
June 28th, 2012
1:36 pm
But, Obama said it’s not a tax!
Jefferson
June 28th, 2012
1:36 pm
Tom, you don’t understand and you seem upset that some folks don’t earn enough to pay federal income tax. Seek help and educations, but what do I know.
larry
June 28th, 2012
1:37 pm
So Limbaugh is a lier. Go figure.
He isnt moving out of the country. Dangit!!!
Mr. Snarky
June 28th, 2012
1:37 pm
“Yes and its called a TAX!!!”
I’m sure that will be very disturbing for everyone whose life is saved by healthcare they otherwise would not have gotten.
Marc
June 28th, 2012
1:37 pm
Jay didn’t Obama and the supports (Democrats) say that this wasn’t a tax?
Joseph
June 28th, 2012
1:38 pm
Adam:
Here you go…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQiQda8qcQU
Adam
June 28th, 2012
1:38 pm
Tom: Us taxpayers will now have to pay for the health care for those who could not afford it.
Yup.
Cry me a river. Next up: Education. Yes, you WILL eventually have to pay for THAT for people who can’t afford it also.
DebbieDoRight - Chocolate Coverered, Freak And Habit Forming
June 28th, 2012
1:39 pm
to get rid of obamacare, we must remove Obama’ immediately
followed by “the Republican govs must KILL (emph fat boy’s) it by
refusing to act until after November!”
“KILL, KILL it, I say”
If we’re lucky, LimpBalls will go home, break open the oxycontin and the Viagara, and invite a couple of underage boys to his house to play “Videos”.
One of the boys will just happen to have his camera phone on and “accidentally” record the whole thing. Then LimpBalls can go down, (so to speak), in flaming glory.
SoCoBro: Fortune/CNN has that story linked
Yeah, they might’ve said Fortune instead of Forbes……
professional skeptic
June 28th, 2012
1:39 pm
Amazing. Right-wingers complaining about “losing their economic freedoms” today…
Don’t like it? Buy an election! Elections in this country are for sale, after all, and the US has the best politicians that money can buy.
Tommy Maddox
June 28th, 2012
1:39 pm
Funny – the majority has told us what the Left denied when they forced it through Congress; it is a tax – on everyone. In a day it’s gone from Obamacare to Obamatax.
Nothing like a bad economy, bad unemployment, and a substantial tax increase – all in an election year. Enjoy.
Adam
June 28th, 2012
1:40 pm
Joseph: Here’s one for you:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5QGkOGZubQ
You’re welcome
Joseph
June 28th, 2012
1:40 pm
How could Oblama emphatically lie to the American people that he wouldn’t raise TAXES???
Joseph
June 28th, 2012
1:41 pm
Adam:
LOL.. Proved you wrong hmm…
Aquagirl
June 28th, 2012
1:41 pm
Geez, 20 pages and almost 1000 posts….
Dr. Hornsby
June 28th, 2012
1:41 pm
Erections for everyone!
Adam
June 28th, 2012
1:41 pm
Joseph: If you have health care, are you going to be paying more in taxes?
….that’s what I thought.
Joseph
June 28th, 2012
1:41 pm
60% of likely voters are for repeal of Obamacare… I figured Romney would win in November but its gonna be a landslide now…
professional skeptic
June 28th, 2012
1:42 pm
Tom: We were already paying for health care for the poor! Where have you been the last 20 years? They’d show up to the emergency rooms, get free health care, and costs would go up for the rest of us.
Were you mad about that?
Adam
June 28th, 2012
1:42 pm
Joseph: I never asserted anything you think you proved me wrong about dude.
independent thinker
June 28th, 2012
1:42 pm
John Roberts on Monday and again today stood up for Justice and showed that the gang of five are not all a bunch of right wing political hacks. The Court by uphholding Obamacare basically overturned the unfunded mandate passed by Saint Ronnie and the Congress which was 100% socialized medicine- EMTALA and applied conservative principles of individual responsibility .
Wait till the rebate checks on excess profits start going out from the insurers which could be over a billion dollars. We will see if the sheep finally wake up and realize John Roberts was writing as a true conservative in upholding the law.What will the right wing mouthpieces say then.
Can you imagine if the state passed a law that everyone has to get water supplied by the city regardless of ability to pay.? Would it be socialism if Governor Obama passed a law penalizing anyone who does not pay their water bill or get a low income subsidy?Oh I forgot their is that idiot who the right wing hacks worship who gave an edict of no new taxes even if they are a penalty to deter moochers.
ld
June 28th, 2012
1:42 pm
Brosephus (Re: 11:18am)
I can see why both liberals and conservatives would be celebrating.
Libs expect gov’t to pay or subsidize their insurance cost.
Conservatives now have a great 2012 issue (but a lousy messenger) for their short-term benefit and, in the long run, the people that can afford insurance and have it will be unaffected–it is a tax on the working class and not the rich, which is exactly what the GOP has wanted all along.
Roberts is a Republican through and through.
It is only the working people that cannot afford insurance because they have been busy being the spending engine of the economy that will pay. Instead of trying to save money, some people been buying, often on credit, as much or more merchandise than they could reasonably afford in lieu of buying insurance and they, along with the merchants, from whom they must buy less, will bear the brunt of this “tax”.
Many among the employee class already living on the edge– paycheck to paycheck — with large debts and families with never-ending wants and needs could even lose their homes over this.
It is progressives, independents and the working class that should hate the boondoggle that is Obamacare.
Joseph
June 28th, 2012
1:42 pm
Think about the massive TAX increases that will have to be implemented on the state level to pay for medicaid….
Matti
June 28th, 2012
1:43 pm
Do you think Bruno really meant it when he broke up with us (again) this morning? Bless his heart.
Joseph
June 28th, 2012
1:43 pm
Adam:
I produced a video backing up my assertion. Unlike libs who read tripe from blogs and think its true I like video evidence…
TaxPayer
June 28th, 2012
1:44 pm
Sing along, cons. Music soothes even the savage.
The cons can yell “I Object” all they want but they can’t refuse you healthcare any more.
It doesn’t matter what pre-existing conditions you have, the insurance companies can’t boot you out the door.
You can be born this way babe and not worry about the free market any more.
We’re on the right track, baby.
Adam
June 28th, 2012
1:44 pm
Think about the massive TAX increases that will have to be implemented on the state level to pay for medicaid….
Pfft. You assume way too much about how governors and legislatures go about “paying for” anything nowadays.
Adam
June 28th, 2012
1:45 pm
I produced a video backing up my assertion. Unlike libs who read tripe from blogs and think its true I like video evidence…
And what? Therefore libs don’t provide video evidence ever? No one was arguing with you on the point that you’re throwing against the wall just to see if it sticks.
RAMZAD
June 28th, 2012
1:46 pm
We have always know that Justice Thomas and his wife are Right Wing hacks, who did not learn anything from his “High Tech Lynching.” Alito, Kennedy and Scalia are the equivalent of judicial bag people for the Right Wing. Justice Roberts, God Bless him- recognized that the Supreme Court is on the verge of becoming a plantation for Republican viewpoints and legal interpretation…did a Hail Mary.
We will take it.
Keep Up the Good Fight!
June 28th, 2012
1:46 pm
Matti, you mean like the other children who have thrown temper tantrums and then returned under other names? Whether voluntary or involuntary banning, as pointed out before, this seems to be their brokeback blog.
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
June 28th, 2012
1:46 pm
Ok, let me understand this.
You probably wont.
Us taxpayers will now have to pay for the health care for those who could not afford it.
Again, it is to the benefit of all in our society if everyone has access to healthcare.
If the govt pays for it, it is really taxpayers who are paying.
Yes, that is how taxes work.
Is this the bottom line, do not want to hear any social justice BS!
Then how about pragmatism?
The people that prepare your food now have access to healthcare and are less likely to transmit infectious diseases. Not only that, but the people you interact with on a daily basis can be healthier and not transmit airborne germs that infect you.
Moochers(the 50% who pay no federal taxes). just got a big boost, at the middle-class taxpayers expense?
No federal taxes?
I suggest that you educate yourself on federal excise taxes, sport.
Paul
June 28th, 2012
1:46 pm
Keep Up
“Paul, just to give you fair warning…..boortz has said he would move to Texas if Tx would secede from union…….
I am torn. I would hate losing Texas but I also hate keeping Boortz.”
Thanks for the warning. Guy’ll probably go to the far south south-west ’cause land is cheap.
We need to encourage him to go there.
Peadawg
June 28th, 2012
1:46 pm
Haha! The front page of foxnews is pretty funny.
Obama: Mandate “absolutely not a tax”
Supreme Court: Oh, yes it is
Joseph
June 28th, 2012
1:46 pm
ld:
You sound like someone who may hold their nose and vote for Romney. Well said I might add..
Adam
June 28th, 2012
1:47 pm
HEADLINE: Busted! Health Insurers Secretly Spent Huge To Defeat Health Care Reform While Pretending To Support
And THAT one is from Forbes. You’re losing your allies cons!
ld
June 28th, 2012
1:47 pm
Unless Georgia taxpayers want to pay for the huge numers of “poor” and uninsured that seem to congregate California and New York, state lawmakers will at least consider creating Georgia’s own state plan and ask for a waiver from the national plan. That would, at least, give Georgia some control over its own fate.
Jm-pass TSPLOST silly people
June 28th, 2012
1:48 pm
“This ruling is as much about protecting the court as about interpreting the law.”
Let’s see. So to “protect the court”, the SC Has to always side with the liberal justices
That makes no sense
Doggone/GA
June 28th, 2012
1:48 pm
“Us taxpayers will now have to pay for the health care for those who could not afford it”
Yep, just as you do now
ld
June 28th, 2012
1:48 pm
numbers
of the uninusred poor
Adam
June 28th, 2012
1:48 pm
Jm: Let’s see. So to “protect the court”, the SC Has to always side with the liberal justices
That makes no sense
Sure it does. Reality has a liberal bias
The Tax Man
June 28th, 2012
1:48 pm
I disagree that the middle class will pay for the leeches. The Insurance company premiums will be much, much higher than the gov’t bribe money will cover (or be able to keep up with the increases). Get ready to pay the piper leeches because you will pay- the difference between the premium and the subsidy or the penalty. Either way, you WILL pay, in the end, everybody pays.