Ideological Litmus Test

[DGS49]

Hypothetical: The "Affordable Care Act" - shall we say - facilitates health insurance coverage for fifty million Americans who, without it, would be without insurance coverage.

But it is blatantly unconstitutional. It is beyond the powers of Congress as articulated in Article I of the Constitution, and as constrained by the Tenth Amendment.

The United States Supreme Court must decide whether to (a) strike down this unconstitutional law in total because of its constitutional defect, or (b) allow it to stand, so that these fifty million unfortunates will not be left without insurance (until Congress has a chance to write a constitutional replacement for ACA). Assume that the Supreme Court would write a hundred-page legal justification, "proving" that the law is not unconstitutional.

Should they strike down the law?

Remember, this is a HYPOTHETICAL QUESTION, and you must PRESUME that the law is blatantly unconstitutional in your answer.

[The correct answer is (a)].

 

[kyzr]

Not much to debate. The answer is (a). It is not 50m without health insurance, its much more, if you have a $10,000 deductible you don't have health insurance. Obamacare is a disaster, it ruined a good healthcare system.

 

[TNHarley]

All healthcare from the fed gov is unconstitutional.
Making the ACA a tax to be constitutional was a fucking farce.
One could argue medicare for all would be constitutional but in order for it to work, you would have to eliminate an entire sector of the economy. That is unconstitutional.

 

[Edgetho]

Not much to debate. The answer is (a). It is not 50m without health insurance, its much more, if you have a $10,000 deductible you don't have health insurance. Obamacare is a disaster, it ruined a good healthcare system.

This is true. Not only that but one of the premises of ending Health Insurance as we knew it (Guys, Gals, COME ON! It's not about Health CARE, it's about Health INSURANCE......)

But one of the reasons was to stop the greedy Health Insurance Companies from getting richer and richer.

Before the Lying Cocksucker infested the half-White House, United Health Care's Market Cap was around 20 Billion Dollars.

Now, it is over 220 Billion dollars. Over TEN TIMES its size in ten years!!!

Why?

Because dimocrap scum paid them off. It's complicated. But trust me, they did.

dimocraps are scum.

period

 

[Edgetho]

All healthcare from the fed gov is unconstitutional.
Making the ACA a tax to be constitutional was a fucking farce.
One could argue medicare for all would be constitutional but in order for it to work, you would have to eliminate an entire sector of the economy. That is unconstitutional.

There are those of us that appreciate what Roberts did because -- Believe me. Had SCOTUS struck down the ACA, the nest step was single payer. Which is socialism. When you have socialized Health Care, you have socialism.

Roberts did us all a favor. Because dimocrap scum had NO intentions of the ACA getting past SCOTUS. None. It was a Trojan Horse all the way.

When it got struck down, as they hoped, dimocrap scum already had the plans layed out for Single Payer. Believe it.

The Swiss plan works. Which is why we'll never adopt it.

 

[DGS49]

Get ready. It will be struck down.