SCOTUS Healthcare Ruling

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KWTV - NEWS 9
BREAKING NEWS: U.S. Supreme Court issues ruling on health care overhaul, striking down the individual mandate

KJRH
BREAKING NEWS: Supreme Court upholds Obama law's requirement that most Americans have health insurance. Story to follow on KJRH.com.

Apparently know one knows what the hell is going on.

 

[doctorjj]

CNN said they struck down the mandate but then put up a correction saying that the full law was upheld.

 

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CNN said they struck down the mandate but then put up a correction saying that the full law was upheld.

Yea, I went to The Atlantic and they got me straightened out: http://www.theatlanticwire.com/national/2012/06/live-supreme-court-rules-obamacare/54007/#


John Roberts, of all people! It's Bush's fault!

 

[doctorjj]

The end is here.

 

[ConstitutionCowboy]

The Republic is dead. The Constitution no longer stands for anything.

Even if Congress passes law to repeal Obama care, and a new president signs the repeal into law, this Court will strike down any law that repeals Obama care on appeal.

The Republic is dead. The Constitution no longer stands for anything.

Woody

 

[rr2008]

again Oklahoma gambles and loses ($54M), http://www.insurancejournal.com/news/southcentral/2012/03/12/239075.htm.

 

[ConstitutionCowboy]

The Republic is dead. The Constitution no longer stands for anything.

Even if Congress passes law to repeal Obama care, and a new president signs the repeal into law, this Court will strike down any law that repeals Obama care on appeal.

The Republic is dead. The Constitution no longer stands for anything.

Woody

 

[candrpotts]

this has to be the most confusing opinion I've ever seen come down from the high court. It's constitutional but not for the reasons POTUS gave. He claimed it wasn;t a tax but that's the exact reason the Justices said it could be constitutional. I think we just saw another case of the court trying to make policy

 

[Hobbes]

Although the regularly scheduled dance has been canceled there will be a spinning contest instead.

 

[donner]

The Republic is dead. The Constitution no longer stands for anything.

Even if Congress passes law to repeal Obama care, and a new president signs the repeal into law, this Court will strike down any law that repeals Obama care on appeal.

The Republic is dead. The Constitution no longer stands for anything.

Woody

why would it be struck down? From the blogs i'm reading it looks like the four liberal judges agreed it should be upheld under the commerce clause and as a tax. Roberts wouldn't agree to the commerce clause but agreed it was a tax. Therefore it stands as a tax but only because congress has the ability to levy taxes not because of it's power under the commerce clause. Therefore, as i am reading it right now, if congress repealed the tax then it would repeal the law. I'd think that congress' power to levy taxes also means it can repeal them.