How will the Supreme Court's Health Care Reform ruling ...

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Roberts is the only justice who voted that it wasn't OK as part of the Commerce Clause, but was OK as a tax.

[they don't love you like i love you]

Oh man is Roberts actually turning around into a Souter?

We like the mandate now?

It's better than the current system especially since if read as "a tax" it's a backdoor to single-payer.

[Supersonic]

Kennedy is reading the dissent and is arguing that the whole of the ACA is unconstitutional.

Roberts opinion holds that individual states may refuse Medicaid expansion funds.

"Nothing in our opinion precludes Congress from offering funds under the ACA to expand the availability of health care, and requiring that states accepting such funds comply with the conditions on their use. What Congress is not free to do is to penalize States that choose not to participate in that new program by taking away their existing Medicaid funding."

[Brittain33]

Oh man is Roberts actually turning around into a Souter?

No, he's just not willing to exert the Supreme Court's power so far as to throw out a major legislative initiative where the precedent was clear. Most of the time he's a solid conservative.

[they don't love you like i love you]

Oh man is Roberts actually turning around into a Souter?

No, he's just not willing to exert the Supreme Court's power so far as to throw out a major legislative initiative where the precedent was clear. Most of the time he's a solid conservative.

Well there's this and the Arizona law.

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Faux moderate Kennedy voted to strike the whole thing down.

[MyRescueKittehRocks]

I can't believe Kennedy got it right and Roberts got it wrong. This thing is unjust in many ways.

To the GOP: PUT A PAUL ON THE TICKET OR YOU LOSE

[WhyteRain]

OK, that takes care of the Presidential race this year.  I'll bet the Repubs are now really pissed that they "settled", to use Michele Bachmann's term, for a moderate like Romney.  I predicted that any GOP candidate would win this year and this ruling just seals it. 

Unless Gary Johnson gets enough libertarian-oriented votes to swing states like Nevada, Colorado, etc. to Obama.

[Tender Branson]

Can we consider this a "BIG FUCKING DEAL" © Joe Biden (with all the negative polling involving the individual mandate) ?

At least it could be good for turnout in November ...

[Supersonic]

The Medicaid expansion would have offered health insurance coverage to 16 million people. Now states apparently can make up their own minds whether or not to accept the expansion – and that means if Florida, Texas and other big states knock it back, then there will be millions of Americans who will miss out on the healthcare reforms.

[they don't love you like i love you]

Well I now have a new addition to my ignore list.

[Gass3268]

Its obvious that that Justice Roberts didn't want to be remembered as Justice Taney of the 21 Century.

[Franzl]

Pleasently surprised!

[MyRescueKittehRocks]

Its obvious that that Justice Roberts didn't want to be remembered as Justice Taney of the 21 Century.

He is Taney now. We needed him to be John Jay and strike this unconstuitional piece of dogcrap.

[Franzl]

Its obvious that that Justice Roberts didn't want to be remembered as Justice Taney of the 21 Century.

He is Taney now. We needed him to be John Jay and strike this unconstuitional piece of dogcrap.

Is John Roberts now an advocate of judicial activism?

[Gass3268]

Its obvious that that Justice Roberts didn't want to be remembered as Justice Taney of the 21 Century.

He is Taney now. We needed him to be John Jay and strike this unconstuitional piece of dogcrap.

Is John Roberts now an advocate of judicial activism?

Nope, but he would have been an advocate of judicial activism if he ruled the bill unconstitutional. 

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Just imagine, if Roberts had been like Kennedy, the whole thing would have been thrown out.

[Brittain33]

The Medicaid expansion would have offered health insurance coverage to 16 million people. Now states apparently can make up their own minds whether or not to accept the expansion – and that means if Florida, Texas and other big states knock it back, then there will be millions of Americans who will miss out on the healthcare reforms.

I have to say that forcing a small government state like Texas where 25% of the population is uninsured to vastly expand Medicaid was going to run into political problems anyway...

[ajb]

Now that the mandate issue has been settled, it gives the Democrats the opportunity to return the focus to the rest of the law -- the stuff people like, like not being denied health insurance because of a pre-existing condition.

[Supersonic]

The only good news for Romney is that he can campaign against the mandate acting as a tax.

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The court is still pretty right-wing. 4 of the justices, including Kennedy voted to kill the whole thing. 5 of the justices voted that the Commerce Clause doesn't allow for such things. ACA really dodged a bullet here.

[Brittain33]

The only good news for Romney is that he can campaign against the mandate acting as a tax.

At which point Obama can point out that this is exactly how it works in Massachusetts.

[zorkpolitics]

So Obama care is realy just another big Democratic tax after all, I hope Romney will make that clear and run against it

This also makes it easy for the House to vote for repeal agian

[Simfan34]

The Guardian is reporting that the individual mandate has been struck down.

Classic Grauniad.

[they don't love you like i love you]

So Obama care is realy just another big Democratic tax after all, I hope Romney will make that clear and run against it

This also makes it easy for the House to vote for repeal agian

Yes Romney is going to run against the same thing he passed in Massachusetts.