THE MANDATE IS CONSTITUTIONAL

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F U TEA PARTY!!!

THE PEOPLE WIN!!

scotusblog live blog entry

10:13

Tom: The bottom line: the entire ACA is upheld, with the exception that the federal government's power to terminate states' Medicaid funds is narrowly read.

[Dan J 277]

This was from CNN:

[updated at 10:16 a.m. ET] Kate Bolduan reports that the Chief Justice John Roberts issued a long opinion in which he said the controversial individual mandate may be upheld and is within Congress’ power under the taxing clause rather than the commerce clause.

[updated at 10:15 a.m. ET] The Supreme Court has upheld the entire health care law by a vote of 5 to 4, Supreme Court Producer Bill Mears said. That includes the medicare provision

[updated at 10:06 a.m. ET] In a landmark decision that will impact the nation for decades, the Supreme Court on Thursday upheld a key provision of President Barack Obama's health care law, ruling that requiring people to have health insurance violates the Constitution.

Chief Justice John Roberts had noted that however that the mandate would have been struck down based on the commerce clause , saying it would "open a new and vast domain" for Congressional power.

CNN was running a breaking news headline that the mandate was struck down, now they changed it.

Edited June 28, 2012 by Dan J

[one...two...tree 2,762]

ahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha......

[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.

[Captain Oates 911]

Yippee

Down with the SPIVS and good health to the people

I drink lots of champagne to the good health of all Americans !

Now stop eating all those cream buns you gluttons !

We were going to return to England for free health care but this means wife can retire early and get health care from a public pool

Down with the people who would profiteer from the misery of others

Read my signature line - nothing ever changes when it comes to the exploitation of pain and misfortune by those grisly fat cats

[Dakine10 5,452]

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.

Perhaps it was a dream?

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The mandate has been upheld. SCOTUS has applied some narrow restrictions to the expansion of Medicaid. thats all. Rest of ACA is upheld.

Suck it, ** freaks.

[Harpa Timsah 13,258]

Yay! I called it right. The Supreme Court has always impressed me, historically speaking.

[one...two...tree 2,762]

Perhaps it was a dream?

[Captain Oates 911]

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.

He/she/it needs a new telly ! Those North Korean ones from the factory outsourced by Romney don't work !!

haha WE WIN - RIGHTOES DEFEATED AND HAVE THEIR NOSES RUBBED IN IT

Edited June 28, 2012 by Ashud Cocoa

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10:32

Amy Howe:

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.

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nm

Edited June 28, 2012 by Mister Fancypants

[Karee 4,191]

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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[kytwell 179]

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

[JohnR! 5,495]

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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Apparently the SCOTUS upheld the entire mandate, including the individual mandate.

Edited June 28, 2012 by Gegel