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- The US Supreme court has no buisness getting involved in the legislative branch of governments work. We have three branches of Government and the Judicial branch has decided that now maybe there is just two.
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- The real problem is here that if we sink this healthcare law, we will have once again punted our medical care to the insurance industry which is only interested in making money, not providing for your healthcare needs. This will be a huge triumph for the haves and a huge loss for the have-nots. All of you who chimed in against this law for whatever reason, have just screwed your less affluent offspring, relatives, friends and neighbors and you did this with determination and glee. You're the perfect puppets of the Greedy Old Party. My congratulations to the party of family values and the moral majority.
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- The Healthcare Law was criminal. The Democrats passed it and none had even read it. Remember Pelosi and her big mouth? Folks this Country has got to get back to our roots. We are losing our Country, our money and our freedoms.
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- I love the pastel rendering of the SCOTUS. I wish the "PLAY CBS NEWS VIDEO" bar would move off of the image to view it.
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- I can't remember a time when the majority of the states sued the federal government over a law. With only one out of four Americans supporting this law, most recognize that it was wrong for the country. When it was passed, a majority of Americans did not want this law.
What a number of Americans wanted was for the federal government to help bring down the cost of health care. Instead, what we got was higher health insurance premiums for most Americans and increased cost for health care due to things like imposing fees on medical devices. This law was written to empower the federal government over the people, not to help bring down the cost of health care for all Americans. This law imposes additional regulations and expenses on private sector businesses, during a time when businesses are struggling and unemployment is still very high.
This law should have never been passed, for all the above reasons. However, those reasons are not the strongest argument against it. The idea that the federal government can force any American to purchase a service creates an environment where there is no limit of empowerment of the government over Americans. The idea that the federal government can impose a fee on Americans for inactivity (not purchasing a service) goes against the very foundation of this country.
This law is not only a disaster for this nation economically, it is an attack on the core freedoms of Americans. Those politicians who wrote and supported this piece of garbage should be held accountable in the upcoming election. - Reply to this comment
- Mortarman_291SG - It does bother me. However, we have to deal with the realities. Read some of my posts. I am against the mandate and many other things, too. If I had my druthers, there would only be a strict interpretation of the Constitution. My preference would be to only allow the Federal government to have the narrow powers specified in the Constitution. No less and no more. That has not been the case and the federal government has given itself more and more power with the Supreme Court's blessing.
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- This court may well issue a majority opinion that will require a future finding that MediCare is unconstitutional. That is why I am skeptical of the Paul Ryan plan to replace MediCare with vouchers to pay private insurance companies.
Congress should have made the law public option only. I believe that the elimination of the public option from the health insurance reform bill was a calculated move on the part of the Republics and they outsmarted the Democrats. Now, not only is the health insurance bill at risk, so is MediCare.
One thing to understand about this Supreme Court: as far as the majority is concerned, if you are not wealthy you are dirt. It is, after all, the American way of evaluating people. - Reply to this comment
- Jeez, Roberts is brain-dead. You'd have to be a complete idiot to ask if congress is going to require everyone have a cell phone in case they need emergency assistance. It doesn't cost people money when you don't go to the hospital. The HC mandate is about the insured having to foot the bill for the uninsured, raising costs. That effects everybody.
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- The government can force you to go to war.
Anyway, it sounds like the Supreme Court may be the death panel of the death panels.
Sorry to see it go... - Reply to this comment
- So if it were to be struck down would romneycare be revoked as well?
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