Well, the three days of Supreme Court
arguments are over, and I wish I felt optimistic about the outcome,
but frankly, I'm nervous. The deck has been stacked against we the
people from jump and it wouldn't surprise me one bit to see this
court throw out the Affordable Health Care Law entirely.
Take for example, the individual
mandate clause, which has been the main point of contention. The GOP
and its teabagger mini-mes refused to even consider it when the
measure, now law, was being argued on Capital Hill.
That was particularly strange since it
was conceived by the GOP think tank, The Heritage Foundation and
promoted by every GOP legislator, including three of the four
currently running for president, prior to 2008. One of them named
Mitt actually wrote it into his health care law when he was governor
of Massachusetts.
You would think that when Barack Obama
embraced this singularly conservative republican idea, that the GOP
would have happily supported him in the bi-partisan manner of
governance.
Did they? Hell no! They've been
fighting it ever since President Obama said it was a good idea for
the people. Makes ya think, it is not about the law, it's about the
Black man in the White House.
And now, it is at the Supreme Court. A
Supreme Court where one justice and his wife are actually on the
payroll of that same Heritage Foundation, which has argued vigorously
in favor of throwing out the individual mandate because it now says
its “baby” is unconstitutional.
Question....if the individual mandate
is unconstitutional today...why was it not unconstitutional when it
was a republican idea?
It's a sure bet that Justice Clarence
will do his dirty work behind the scenes because as has become
typical, Thomas has not opened his mouth in open court these past few
days. If the Justices do strike down the law, Thomas will have earned
his tainted lucre.
I'm sure wifey-poo Ginny will be so
proud of her man.
So what happens if the Affordable
Health Care Law is struck down? Do the Repubs have a plan?
Well, no they don't. Not one of them
who has taken to the airwaves to call for the law to be struck down
have a plan. They just want it gone.
If it does go...
So does allowing parents to cover their
kids on their insurance until aged 26.
So does coverage for children and
people with pre existing conditions...insurance will once again be
allowed to deny coverage.
So does the Medicaid expansion that was
to be used to give health coverage to the 45-million people who don't
have it.
So does the mandate requiring insurance
companies to use most of the money collected from premiums to go to
medical costs for consumers.
So does free contraception, birth
control and other preventive services for women.
So do the mandates requiring
restaurants and food companies to tell us what it is they put in our
food.
Striking down Affordable Health Care
means that men can still buy viagra or ciallis....
It means that Congressmen will still
have their health care without penalty.
It means that the insurance companies
and the drug companies, for that matter will not be reined in on
cost, which will go up and up unregulated.
SUPCO has promised to issue its ruling
in late June.
I'm not holding my breath.
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The Race Card is a weak argument, failing logical support for the new health reform law.
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