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U.S. Healthcare Law Ruled Unconstitutional
A federal district judge struck down key provisions of the Obama-Pelosi-Reid healthcare experiment today. What the judge took issue with was the individual mandate clause that would force private citizens to purchase private healthcare, or face penalties.
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Obama-Pelosi-Reid Healthcare Experiment? Or a very close copy of the 1993 Republican counter-proposal against Clinton-care?
Very ironic. Anyways, I really am not surprised, the Democrats were certainly stretching the Welfare, Taxation, Commerce, and "Necessary and Proper" Clauses of the US Constitution. But then again it was no holds barred, slash and burn, take no prisoners hyper-partisan atmosphere that they were operating in when crafting this law. Remember "Pulling the plug on grandma," "cornhusker kickbacks" and "death panels?" Especially the "You Lie" outburst during the Joint Session Address by the President on Healthcare. I was surprised the Democrats were still even able to pull it off by bypassing the Filibuster rule. LOL. XD Another main reason I'd rather expand Medicare back during the Healthcare Debate, to all US Citizens and see how seniors will revolt if Medicare is struck down as unconstitutional. 8) Plus this has been pointed out waaaaayyyyy back in March 2009. Quote:
One from Michigan Another from the same Virginia district that todays ruling came, which I might point out was appointed by George W. Bush. |
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I'm not surprised that it past. The Democrats had nearly a perfect majority (59 seats) in the Senate at the time of the bill's passage. All it took was persuading one lone Republican to stop a filibuster. And there's no filibuster rule in the House, so the Democratic majority had an even easier time there. If judges are really going to make their decisions based on politics, than the healthcare law is doomed. The U.S. Supreme Court is made up of a majority of conservative Justices. Unless Obama gets to replace one or two of the conservative Justices with liberal ones, the healthcare law's chances of passing constitutional muster look dim. And now that the Republicans have made significant gains in the Senate (short of a majority, but a comfortable amount of gains for filibustering), Obama will be hard pressed trying to get a staunchly liberal Supreme Court nominee confirmed. |
Oh I know that. Main reason it's no use to lament this. It all comes down to the 9 Justices on the Black robes in the US Supreme Court after all.
Will possibly remind me of Bush v. Gore again. :B |
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The Republicans in the 112th Congress will be a lot more polarized to the right than the Republicans of 1993 that proposed a healhcare bill similar to the one that passed this year. With moderate Republican and Democratic incumbents losing to Tea Party-backed candidates, what little, if any (and I'm really stretching that term), bipartisanship there was in the 111th Congress will cease to exist come January. Besides, the Clinton era Republicans weren't going up against a far-left liberal like Obama. Clinton was a moderate Southern Democrat. More members of Congress from both parties were more moderate than today as well. That's why things were a lot better during the Clinton years. |
Like seriously, though? What the hell was so unconstitutional about it, besides it being too much on the left for our righty-tighty judges? From what I saw most of the stuff in the health-care bill had nothing to do with "forcing people to use a nationalized plan", most of it was just preventing insurance companies from pulling the rug under people's feet. You know, some freaking rules for the healthcare system. lolol
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Actually, the law requires you to buy private health insurance or get into Medicaid or you'll get levied fees/taxes. But that's waaaayyyy into 2014.
But the upside is, you get a whole lot of government subsidies to buy it. And yes, I know the political landscape for the next 2 years. :3 |
I see why they don't like it. Hahahaha that's kinda pathetic really. I've always viewed a national healthcare plan as a basic covering while insurance companies could be a silver platter version of healthcare. What's so unconstitutional about that? We're forced by law to go to school lol
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Same here. That's what it's supposed to be on the first place. But the current system is so ingrained that what we got was basically an expansion of coverage through subsidies. :B
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It's ultimately the government paying for the entire healthcare system after all.
The Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act requires hospitals to accept emergency room patients, and those hospitals who accept patients are given "charity grants" by the government to pay for such care. (Which under this act will be lowered due to coverage) So it's better to have people covered early so they can see the doctor before medical problems metastasize. And when a person gets in an accident, who pays for their care in the end? Also the government provides subsidies already to health insurance companies by not taxing the benefits given by employers, thereby already giving the government incentives to have a deeper role in regulating lost revenue. |
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What part of the Constitution did the Health care bill break for it to be declared unconstitional? Just wondering, besides I don't like the Obamacare plan...
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