Scotus predicitons re: Obamacare

[bhunter]

Originally Posted by d-ray657

The federal court here puts on a yearly seminar and one of the regular speakers is a constitutional law professor who is a walking encyclopedia of Supreme Court History (He is the founding dean of the UC-Irvine Law School). It happens this Friday. I am looking forward to his comments on the decision, whatever it may be.

Regards,

D-Ray

That sounds wonderful. We expect a complete report by 10:00 AM sharp on Saturday. My thinking is that the SC would like to bounce this back to Congress and let them deal with the details. Currently only about a 20-25% of the populace are in favor of the PPACA law. We only have about nine more hours.

[Oerets]

Originally Posted by bhunter

Currently only about a 20-25% of the populace are in favor of the PPACA law. We only have about nine more hours.

Funny you should say that, just last night I overheard a news interview of people on the street. When told what they would actually be loosing the percentage jumped up to over 70% approval.

Kept hearing over and over "didn't know that was in there".



Barney

[Boreas]

Everything is upheld. SCOTUS reinterpreted the Individual Mandate as a tax. Otherwise, The Affordable Care Act pretty much stands as written.

Suck on that, Repubs!

John

[Boreas]

Originally Posted by Boreas

Suck on that, Repubs!

John

Sorry about that, Repubs. I'm doing that "team sport" thing I hate so much. The thing is, you won too. You just don't know it yet.

Congrats to everyone!

John

[icenine]

Hey I guess I was right but I have not seen the breakdown of the vote yet!

Even if he is just a one-term President, this decision marks Obama as one of the most important Presidents of our times as far as social legislation is concerned...puts him in league with FDR,Truman and LBJ.

[merrylander]

Apparently Roberts joined the liberal justices in voting for PPACA.

[Boreas]

Originally Posted by merrylander

Apparently Roberts joined the liberal justices in voting for PPACA.

Yes, he did. The fuss that's being made about that suggests that the vote was 5 - 4 with Roberts as the deciding vote, meaning, I believe, that Kennedy, Alito, Scalia and Thomas voted to overturn.

John

[piece-itpete]

As I tell my nephew, well I'll be a monkeys' uncle.

I'll see if my premiums (and quality of care) go down or up before guessing it a win.

FDR? Truman?

And LBJ? Well Obie did bomb the hell out of a few countries lol. I think that overall this is a political loss for him though regardless of merit.

Pete

[icenine]

Originally Posted by piece-itpete

As I tell my nephew, well I'll be a monkeys' uncle.

I'll see if my premiums (and quality of care) go down or up before guessing it a win.

FDR? Truman?

And LBJ? Well Obie did bomb the hell out of a few countries lol. I think that overall this is a political loss for him though regardless of merit.

Pete

You were not around for Lyndon's carpet bombing of North Vietnam? Much good as that did. Obama does not even come close to that. Lyndon gave you your Medicare...or maybe your just a teenager hanging around this barber shop with us old timers

Well I guess you agreeing with me about the bombing reread your post..

Political loss? I do not think Obama really cares about that...it is more for the helping bring more health care to people.

[piece-itpete]

Yes I was pointing out that LBJ and Obomba share a love of bombing lol. No carpet bombing but of course we've got bombs with discernment now!

Boy you really attribute Obama with a lot of altruism, I admire that I'm much more cynical.

I see as part of 'fixing' Medicare he's just going to reduce payments to doctors. Why am I cynical again?

Pete