Yes, people…..
Five guys sitting a room yesterday could have voted to screw up the ENTIRE nation’s health laws with a vote to throw it in the garbage….
It’s just THAT simple….
All the efforts of the President and Congress….
BOTH parties to find a compromise could be at jeopardy….
One can only hope that Thursday night…
Somehow these guys hard a conversation with themselves and realized what was at stake…..
Redoing what they may undo will take a Herculean effort AGAIN in the political poisoned air or a upcoming Presidential Election….
But it WILL have to be done…
While the Republican’s have come down to using the ‘mandate’ as a wedge issue to try to unseat the Democratic President….
The fact remains that MILLION’s of American’s would lose their ability to have healthcare if the provision’s of the bill are allowed to stop…..
(And might the nation’s economy billions)
All of this because a mandate which is only a tax penalty that effects 10% of American has been used as selling point to get rid go the WHOLE Law for political reasons….
Good Job Republican’s…..
You may succeeded beyond your wildest dreams….
With the wrong call here…
The 5 guys on the court may expose themselves to withering criticism and ridicule unlike anything they’ve EVER known….
davidklion.wordpress.com….Scalia, Robers, Kennedy….
Although it would be folly to predict what the court will conclude, policy experts, insurers, doctors and legislators are now seriously contemplating the repercussions of a complete change in course two years after the nation began to put the law into place.
Their concerns were heightened after three days of court arguments in which some justices expressed skepticism about whether the full law could stand without the individual mandate requiring almost everyone to have insurance.
“Many of us did not get the bill we wanted, but I think having to start over is worse than having to fix this,” said Robert Laszewski, a health care industry consultant and former insurance executive who opposed the bill.
Others say, however, the last two years have made it easier for Congress or the states to revisit the issue. The effort was not a waste of time, said Christine Pollack, vice president of government affairs at the Retail Industry Leaders Association, a trade group that represents large retailers and opposed the law. “There has been an important dialogue that has happened over the last three and a half years that has been a long time coming,” she said.
The most ambitious provisions would be nearly impossible to salvage, like the requirement that insurers offer coverage even to those with existing medical conditions and the broad expansion of the Medicaid program for the poor. Popular pieces of the legislation might survive in the market, like insuring adult children up to age 26 through their parents’ policies, along with some of the broader changes being made in the health care system in how hospitals and doctors deliver care.
Abandoning the efforts and billions of dollars invested since the law was passed in 2010 would result in turmoil for hospitals, doctors, patients and insurers.
Many insurers would have difficulty changing course. “The risk of repeal and starting from zero frightens them infinitely more” than having to comply with the law as written, said Michael A. Turpin, a former insurance executive who is now a senior executive at USI Insurance Services, a broker.
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This is a matter of FACT:
The Health Care Mandate is UNCONSTITUTIONAL….
Yea Daniel….
Just like Social Security, Taxes, Medicare, Medicaid……
Please spare me the BS…..
Did ya ever read the Whatever Work’s post that reviewed the fact that this country has had STRAIGHT UP mandates from its inception….
And during war times….
This BS is Politics by the 5….
On something that would affect 10% of the nation’s population less than 2 years from now….
Boy if your position prevail’s Daniel?
The Supreme’s and the GOP are gonna have a howl and hot potato in their laps….
Wait and see….
You have NO idea what these guys and the party are gonna have to deal with…
The way I see it Obama’s gonna win in November Daniel…
A bad call by these guys is gonna SEAL the deal…..
A further lock the Right out of the American political mainstream…
What bothers me about the Republican view of healthcare
Is that they truly seem to not WANT working people to have any help in affording it
There seems to be an element of
Mean spiritedness at hand
Yes indeed Jack…
I don’t like either….
Part of the reason that our healthcare system is so ineffective is that it is so expensive. And due to the high expense, people often make poor decisions – they take their pills every other day, they don’t go to the doctor as often as they should and this just ultimately further rises the cost of healthcare.
Legislators in both parties can do a better job at reducing the cost of health care. They need to imlement rules that ease up on prescribing certain addictive drugs like oxycotin. the need to discourage lawsuits and impose caps on the rewards, and find enter ways to reward physicians based on successful outcomes instead of the number of treatments they provide.
Yes they need to listen and follow your common sense suggestions Z…..
But we’re dealing with politician’s right?
the GOP shouldn’t cheer too loudly if the health are law is overturned. The continued rise in healthcare costs is unsustainable. And it is may be easier to reward physicians based on successful outcomes in a single payer system. if the Supreme Court overturns Obamacare, it definitely increases the odds of an eventual single payer system.
Democrats KNOW that the Mandate will in all LIKELYHOOD be striked down by the SCOTUS Judges.
A 50/50 chance I would say
I’ve learned through my years of watching Judges question lawyers
To not always be swayed by the tone or content of their questions
I agree with Jack. Six months ago I would have said there were a 90% chance the law woud stand.
Ok..I’ll join Jack and Z…..50/50…..
The WHOLE thing?
Less than 50%
After all the mandate IS just a tax…..
And we ALL know the Congress taxes us EVERY YEAR….