breaking news?!.....Supreme Court rules on 'Obama Care'......

[NewtonMP2100]

....they've thrown the case out......they said the states did not have the legal merit for the case.......7 to 2......


....so 'Obama Care' survives again.....

[Acer]

[Lemon Drop]

Nice.

[p8712]

They'll run on repealing it forever, like abortion.

[Ombligo]

Trump's picks split, only Gorsuch joined Alito in dissent. Barrett and Kavanaugh joined the rest to toss the case out.

[deckeda]

Quote of the day, via Twitter:

“ ... it remains, as ever, a BFD. “
- Joseph R. Biden

Yes Mr. President, it sure is.

[cbelt3]

The finding can be summarized :
"Due to changes in the Law, the plaintiffs were not harmed, so they have no standing to bring this before the court."

Or
"No money, no problem"

https://amylhowe.com/2021/06/17/court-ag...-in-place/

"The individual plaintiffs, Breyer explained, contended that they are harmed, and therefore have a right to sue, because they have to pay each month for health insurance to comply with the mandate. The problem with that argument, Breyer reasoned, is that although the ACA instructs them to obtain health insurance, the Internal Revenue Service can no longer impose a penalty on taxpayers who fail to obtain insurance – and there is no other government action connected to the harm that the individual plaintiffs claim to have suffered, a key requirement for standing."

[Janit]

cbelt3 wrote:
The finding can be summarized :
"Due to changes in the Law, the plaintiffs were not harmed, so they have no standing to bring this before the court."

Or
"No money, no problem"

https://amylhowe.com/2021/06/17/court-ag...-in-place/

"The individual plaintiffs, Breyer explained, contended that they are harmed, and therefore have a right to sue, because they have to pay each month for health insurance to comply with the mandate. The problem with that argument, Breyer reasoned, is that although the ACA instructs them to obtain health insurance, the Internal Revenue Service can no longer impose a penalty on taxpayers who fail to obtain insurance – and there is no other government action connected to the harm that the individual plaintiffs claim to have suffered, a key requirement for standing."

Hoist on their own petard, anyone?

[deckeda]

They thought they’d chip away at it and instead all they did was delete the thing that could have given them standing. And now they’re trapped. It’s actually kinda awesome.

[Fritz]

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/17/upsho...tion=click&module=Well&pgtype=Homepage§ion=The%20Upshot

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Efforts_to...e_Care_Act

"After the July 27, 2017 vote on the Health Care Freedom Act, Newsweek "found at least 70 Republican-led attempts to repeal, modify or otherwise curb the Affordable Care Act since its inception as law on March 23, 2010."

https://www.forbes.com/sites/rickungar/2...0464914248

Health Insurers Secretly Spent Huge To Defeat Health Care Reform While Pretending To Support Obamacare
"A stunning $102.4 million spent over just 15 months."