Court, for now, punts on request to fast-track health care challenge
The United States Supreme Court today took no action on a request from the state of Virginia, which is asking the court to fast-track a challenge to the Obama health care law.
The justices were to have discussed the case last Friday, but today's delay signals that they're not yet ready to say what they'll do about Virginia's request.
Two federal judges, in Virginia and Florida, have found that provision unconstitutional. Three others, also in Virginia and in Michigan and Washington, DC, have found the law constitutional.
I think you're going to see that even if they rule that individual mandate doesn't pass muster, that can be severed from the rest of the Act, and the Health Care Act will go forward.
Without funds, there will be no act to forward. A lot like the border fence. By law it must be built, but without the funds appropriated to build it, the law itself has no effect. Oh sure, you can force insurance companies to insure adults as dependent children, you might even be able to enforce the provisions that those with existing conditions be insured at the same community rate as those that do not have them and eliminate the cap on lifetime benefits, but all that will do is toss more and more people into the ranks of the uninsured as a result of being unable to afford the insurance chocked full of federal interventionist mandates. The title of the bill was Health Care Affordability Act if memory serves me correctly LJ. How ironic that it will have exactly the opposite effect and make it even more unaffordable should your prognostication prove accurate.
It's has nothing to do with making health care affordable, it has everything to do with forcing insurance companies to raise rates thus making them look like the bad guys and eventually bankrupting them and putting millions out of work. Then the government comes riding in on it's white horse to save us with a single payer plan and eliminating our freedom of choice.
It was always the women, and above all the young ones, who were the most bigoted adherents of the Party, the swallowers of slogans, the amateur spies and nosers−out of unorthodoxy
