Comments on: Video: President Obama Reacts to Supreme Court ACA Ruling

By: Albie Pabon

Albie Pabon — Thu, 28 Jun 2012 18:59:03 +0000

This is a good day for Americans. This is a good day for Chief Justice Roberts.

Several points: According to Kenji Yoshino, Constitutional law scholar who read Roberts writing: This mandate is NOT a tax and went on to define what he meant. Plus he wrote in teh affirmation that the Commerce Clause was unConstitutional for the purposes of ACA. Congress has the right to tax. POTUS could use this info to continue to sell ACA (aka Obamacare).

Currently insured Americans DO NOT pay the “tax” in the mandate. The uninsured pay a penalty on their tax form for the 2014 year (in 2015). POTUS was clear that people who don’t currently have insurance must take personal responsibility (a concept Republicans normally embrace) and the “tax” was the mechanism to do that.

More than 80% of uninsured use ERs costing the insured to pay more for their own and taxpayers to help foot the bill. The savings to States is enormous over time (see CBO numbers); therefore, it behooves States to Opt In rather than Opt Out.

It is a win-win for everybody leaving Americans a healthier class of people because of the insurance company rules in ACA. Win-win sounds like a good policy to me.

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By: Leah L Burton

Leah L Burton — Thu, 28 Jun 2012 17:54:56 +0000

This is such an amazing win for the President and for the rest of us. Would I have preferred a single payer law? You bet! But I will accept this – though not perfect – and celebrate that the collective blood pressure of all the Obama haters is at a critical high.

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By: mary aseltyne

mary aseltyne — Thu, 28 Jun 2012 17:29:22 +0000

In the future, Republicans will regret calling it
~Obamacare~

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By: majii

majii — Thu, 28 Jun 2012 16:54:26 +0000

PBO was a bit restrained because he didn’t want to be seen by republicans as “rubbing it in,” but I could see the happiness reflected in his face and words. Yippeee!!!

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By: Conservative Heart

Conservative Heart — Thu, 28 Jun 2012 16:25:11 +0000

What a f*cking communist move! What an absolute farce!

Who the hell do the Supreme Court think they are some kind of ultimate decision-making body on what laws are constitutional? Bunch of joke-ass dumb asses!

Who needs health care? Who wants health care?

Not me!!

I don’t want to be anywhere near being remotely healthy or have any access to straight teeth. I would prefer to be dicked around by poor health coverage and be at the total mercy of wealthy insurance companies who wish to jack costs by 10-25% every year. Further, it is my natural, God-given, patriotic American right to develop an unfortunate pre-existing condition and to not be able to get ANY health coverage for the rest of my sad, pathetic existence.

But God damn it, that’s what being MURCAN is all about! Freedom! I want to protect my precious freedom to die from lack of access to health care! I want to protect my freedom to a protracted, whizzing cough! I want to protect my freedom to be obese! I want to protect my to live with a heart murmur and not get any treatment while protecting my freedom to let Dick Cheney get all the heart ailment treatments he wants! I want to protect my freedom to tell dumb ass women what kind of health care they should have.

Most importantly, I want to protect my freedom to not be ruled the the tyranny of government health care–keep your damn governemnt hands off my medicare! I want the freedom to tell government death panels to fuck off because I’d rather have my life and death decisions made for me by stressed out insurance claims adjustors working for greedy health care companies.

I want to protect my freedom to the America I know and love–the land of the sick and the home of the flayed!

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