THE MANDATE IS CONSTITUTIONAL

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Does this mean my top of the line plan as a gov't employee is going away?

frankly, i don't give a damn.

Now this from the same CNN site:

The Supreme Court backs all parts of President Obama’s signature health care law.

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the opinion is complex. they found the mandate no good by commerce clause but ok by taxing power. someone in cnn (and fox) posted too soon before they read the whole thing.

[Captain Oates 911]

Now this from the same CNN site:

The Supreme Court backs all parts of President Obama’s signature health care law.

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get some new glasses - they will be affordable now

[Karee 4,191]

You must be looking at a different CNN site. This is what I see:

The Supreme Court has struck down the individual mandate for health care.

I lireally cut and pasted the bold above from www.cnn.com.

[Harpa Timsah 13,258]

Does this mean my top of the line plan as a gov't employee is going away?

No.

[Captain Oates 911]

frankly, i don't give a damn.

the opinion is complex. they found the mandate no good by commerce clause but ok by taxing power. someone in cnn (and fox) posted too soon before they read the whole thing.

Its 100% intact - yippee ! the righto robber barons are passing into history

Stock market is plunging as the spivs and profiteers go to back to their mansions to cry in their champagne

Public health care IS NEVER REVERSED because it's what the people want

Even the UK Conservatives HAVE to swear allegiance to socialized medicine - they dare not do otherwise

I lireally cut and pasted the bold above from www.cnn.com.

It was probably a republican fake website - they do that stuff

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Its 100% intact - yippee ! the righto robber barons are passing into history

Stock market is plunging as the spivs and profiteers go to back to their mansions to cry in their champagne

Public health care IS NEVER REVERSED because it's what the people want

Even the UK Conservatives HAVE to swear allegiance to socialized medicine - they dare not do otherwise

well not 100%... scotus has put some restructions on the medicaid expansion.

[JohnR! 5,495]

I lireally cut and pasted the bold above from www.cnn.com.

As it turns out the individual mandate might be at odds with the commerce clause but not with taxation. Tomato, tomahto...

[Karee 4,191]

This from the Dallas Morning News:

The danger of trying to render an instant interpretation of any Supreme Court decision is that you can easily get it wrong. Supreme Court decisions are normally nuanced and couched in thick, difficult to understand legal language.

CNN threw caution to the wind and reported almost instantaneously that the Affordable Care Act had been overturned.

Minutes later, after getting a clearer read of the decision, they declared the law as being upheld.

Covering wars and natural disasters, CNN beats all the rest. Covering heavily nuanced Supreme Court decisions, uh, I’ll stick to the print media, thank you.

If you want to understand the nuance, I highly recommend the live coverage at Scotusblog.com. Over there, Amy Howe writes: “In Plain English: The Affordable Care Act, including its individual mandate that virtually all Americans buy health insurance, is constitutional. There were not five votes to uphold it on the ground that Congress could use its power to regulate commerce between the states to require everyone to buy health insurance. However, five Justices agreed that the penalty that someone must pay if he refuses to buy insurance is a kind of tax that Congress can impose using its taxing power. That is all that matters. Because the mandate survives, the Court did not need to decide what other parts of the statute were constitutional, except for a provision that required states to comply with new eligibility requirements for Medicaid or risk losing their funding. On that question, the Court held that the provision is constitutional as long as states would only lose new funds if they didn’t comply with the new requirements, rather than all of their funding.”http://dallasmorningviewsblog.dallasnews.com/2012/06/cnn-does-180-degree-about-face-in-coverage-of-court-ruling.html/

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To all the RWN's, Teabaggers and such who thought the mandate was some kind of communist takeover and an abomination of our beloved Constitution, I'm currently accepting your apologies. Admit now that you were just got up in the moment and weren't really thinking with your head straight. Admit that sometimes, like the Incredible Hulk, you let your emotions overpower your rationality. I forgive you and I'm here to help. May I suggest some Yoga or Tai Chi.

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yeah scotusblog rocks.

To all the RWN's, Teabaggers and such who thought the mandate was some kind of communist takeover and an abomination of our beloved Constitution, I'm currently accepting your apologies. Admit now that you were just got up in the moment and weren't really thinking with your head straight. Admit that sometimes, like the Incredible Hulk, you let your emotions overpower your rationality. I forgive you and I'm here to help. May I suggest some Yoga or Tai Chi.

my tax money better not pay for that yoga or tai chi...

[Captain Oates 911]

well not 100%... scotus has put some restructions on the medicaid expansion.

I hear the scratching sound of straws being grasped at

We won they lost - haha !

Edited June 28, 2012 by Ashud Cocoa

[Karee 4,191]

I thought I was going crazy there for a minute.

[Captain Oates 911]

To all the RWN's, Teabaggers and such who thought the mandate was some kind of communist takeover and an abomination of our beloved Constitution, I'm currently accepting your apologies. Admit now that you were just got up in the moment and weren't really thinking with your head straight. Admit that sometimes, like the Incredible Hulk, you let your emotions overpower your rationality. I forgive you and I'm here to help. May I suggest some Yoga or Tai Chi.

I don't forgive them but I will give them a job - a government job - crew members on Gingrich's moon base

Edited June 28, 2012 by Ashud Cocoa

[JohnR! 5,495]

To all the RWN's, Teabaggers and such who thought the mandate was some kind of communist takeover and an abomination of our beloved Constitution, I'm currently accepting your apologies. Admit now that you were just got up in the moment and weren't really thinking with your head straight. Admit that sometimes, like the Incredible Hulk, you let your emotions overpower your rationality. I forgive you and I'm here to help. May I suggest some Yoga or Tai Chi.

Not so fast, buster!

It is never too late to make up another conspiracy !!!!

I am sure that SCOTUS decision is part of a much larger, humongous, incommensurable and indescribable conspiracy...

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I am reading on right wing sites that Roberts is a ####### for big insurance