Little-Acorn
11-07-2014, 02:27 PM
It seems bad news comes for the Democrats in groups.
On Tuesday the American people rejected their past six years of liberalism, govt expansion, and coercion in no uncertain terms.
And now, the Supreme Court announced it would hear the case that points out that Obamacare allows subsidies only in states that have set up their own state exchanges. With 26 states opting out of such exchanges, this would effectively gut the most fundamental purpose of Obamacare: To transfer money from those who earn more to those who earn less.
The law itself is clear: Subsidies can be provided by exchanges set up by the states. And states don't have to set up exchanges at all.
The liberals are now saying that this is obviously a typo in the law: Of course, of course they meant ALL exchanges, both Federal and state.
But one of the key architects of Obamacare, Jonathan Gruber, stated baldly in 2012 that the wording was carefully crafted the way it was, in order to force more states to set up their own exchanges: If they didn't, their citizens would get no subsidies. http://hotair.com/archives/2014/07/25/obamacare-architect-explained-in-2012-video-why-only-state-exchanges-pay-subsidies/
Of course, Gruber has now done a hasty 180 and insists it's not so, in lockstep with the rest of the leftist shills.
Now he gets to explain it to the judges. Why should the Democrats be allowed to violate the law they wrote themselves, after deliberately writing the law so that non-exchange states were forbidden to give subsidies?
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http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/11/07/supreme-court-justices-to-hear-health-law-subsidies-challenge/
Supreme Court Justices to hear health law subsidies challenge
Published November 07, 2014
The Supreme Court has agreed to hear a new challenge to President Obama's health care law.
The justices on Friday say they will decide whether the law authorizes subsidies that help millions of low- and middle-income people afford their health insurance premiums.
A federal appeals court upheld Internal Revenue Service regulations that allow health-insurance tax credits under the Affordable Care Act for consumers in all 50 states. Opponents argue that most of the subsidies are illegal.
On Tuesday the American people rejected their past six years of liberalism, govt expansion, and coercion in no uncertain terms.
And now, the Supreme Court announced it would hear the case that points out that Obamacare allows subsidies only in states that have set up their own state exchanges. With 26 states opting out of such exchanges, this would effectively gut the most fundamental purpose of Obamacare: To transfer money from those who earn more to those who earn less.
The law itself is clear: Subsidies can be provided by exchanges set up by the states. And states don't have to set up exchanges at all.
The liberals are now saying that this is obviously a typo in the law: Of course, of course they meant ALL exchanges, both Federal and state.
But one of the key architects of Obamacare, Jonathan Gruber, stated baldly in 2012 that the wording was carefully crafted the way it was, in order to force more states to set up their own exchanges: If they didn't, their citizens would get no subsidies. http://hotair.com/archives/2014/07/25/obamacare-architect-explained-in-2012-video-why-only-state-exchanges-pay-subsidies/
Of course, Gruber has now done a hasty 180 and insists it's not so, in lockstep with the rest of the leftist shills.
Now he gets to explain it to the judges. Why should the Democrats be allowed to violate the law they wrote themselves, after deliberately writing the law so that non-exchange states were forbidden to give subsidies?
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http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/11/07/supreme-court-justices-to-hear-health-law-subsidies-challenge/
Supreme Court Justices to hear health law subsidies challenge
Published November 07, 2014
The Supreme Court has agreed to hear a new challenge to President Obama's health care law.
The justices on Friday say they will decide whether the law authorizes subsidies that help millions of low- and middle-income people afford their health insurance premiums.
A federal appeals court upheld Internal Revenue Service regulations that allow health-insurance tax credits under the Affordable Care Act for consumers in all 50 states. Opponents argue that most of the subsidies are illegal.