We have breaking news coming from Texas. A federal judge has struck down the Affordable Care Act (aka Obamacare). A group of Republican state attorneys general argued in their lawsuit that the repeal of the tax penalty gutted the argument for ACA legality. Bloomberg has more, with the publication adding that the DOJ tried to argue that the individual mandate, including provisions to keep the premium rates the same among healthy individuals and those with pre-existing conditions, should be struck down, but keep the rest of the law intact. That included Medicaid expansion, the employer mandates, the exchanges, and premium subsides for hospitals.
The judge ruled that the mandate and the rest of the law couldn’t be separated. Don’t fall in love with this ruling, as I’m seeing that it a) probably won’t survive an appeal, which is going to happen; and b) it’s not an injunction. In short, law Twitter is saying that the judge’s ruling merely treats the “motion for a preliminary injunction as a request for summary judgment.”...
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https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2018/12/14/unconstitutional-federal-judge-strikes-down-obamacare-n2537538
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[–] G45Colt 0 points 3 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago
Should have never made it past the SC. I wonder how many justices were threatened to get it through? Maybe that will come out in the future as part of the plan to provide Secret Service protection for justices.