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https://www.cnbc.com/2021/06/17/obamacare-survives-after-supreme-court-rejects-latest-republican-challenge.html

Obamacare survives after Supreme Court rejects latest Republican challenge


The Supreme Court on Thursday ruled against Texas and other Republican-led states seeking to strike down Obamacare in the law’s latest test before the nation’s highest court.

The top court voted 7-2 to reverse an appeals court ruling that had struck down the law’s individual mandate provision.

Justice Stephen Breyer, who authored the opinion of the court, said that Texas and the other states that challenged the law failed to show that they were harmed by it. In legal terms, the states failed to demonstrate that they had standing.

“Neither the individual nor the state plaintiffs have shown that the injury they will suffer or have suffered is ‘fairly traceable’ to the ‘allegedly unlawful conduct’ of which they complain,” Breyer wrote.

The decision is a major victory for the legislation, which former President Barack Obama signed in 2010. The law has since become a crucial element of the nation’s health-care system, responsible for the coverage of tens of millions of Americans.

President Joe Biden, who served as Obama’s vice president when the law was signed, has vowed to expand its reach.

The decision marks the third time that Obamacare, officially known as the Affordable Care Act, has survived a challenge before the Supreme Court. Defenders of the law worried that the panel, which now has a 6-3 majority of Republican-appointed justices, would scrap the legislation, which has long been criticized by conservatives.

“Each time, in each arena, the Affordable Care Act has prevailed,” Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., said on the Senate floor minutes after the latest ruling came down.

“Let me say definitively: The Affordable Care Act has won, the Supreme Court has ruled, the ACA is here to stay. And now, we’re going to try to make it bigger and better,” Schumer said.

“What a day,” he added.

Several of the court’s conservatives, including Chief Justice John Roberts, joined Breyer’s opinion on Thursday. The others voting with Breyer were Justices Clarence Thomas, Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan, Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett.

Kavanaugh and Barrett are appointees of former President Donald Trump, whose administration had unsuccessfully attempted to overturn Obamacare throughout his one term in office. However, Congress as part of the 2017 tax bill eliminated Obamacare’s so-called individual mandate penalties.

A spokeswoman for Trump did not immediately respond to CNBC’s request for comment on the court’s ruling.

Democrats had warned during Barrett’s confirmation hearings that she was likely to cast a vote in the case that would jeopardize Obamacare.

Justices Samuel Alito and Neil Gorsuch, both conservatives, dissented from the court’s majority opinion.

“Today’s decision is the third installment in our epic Affordable Care Act trilogy, and it follows the same pattern as installments one and two,” Alito wrote in a dissent that was joined by Gorsuch. “In all three episodes, with the Affordable Care Act facing a serious threat, the Court has pulled off an improbable rescue.”

The White House did not immediately respond to CNBC’s request for comment on the ruling. But numerous Biden administration officials were quick to celebrate the decision on social media Thursday morning.

White House chief of staff Ron Klain tweeted “It’s still a BFD” — an apparent reference to Biden’s infamous hot-mic comment at the signing of the bill in 2010, when he whispered to Obama, “this is a big f------ deal.”



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On a brighter note:

Ruth Bader Ginsburg = still dead


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by whom? God?

there's nobody left

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Well...it is impossible for liberals to not lie


“ObamaCare was sold on a lie to the American people. Its crown jewel – the individual mandate – was unconstitutional when it was enacted and it is still unconstitutional," Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton said in a statement. "Yet, seven justices decided to avoid the question of the constitutionality by limiting its decision to a ruling on standing."

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Well...it is impossible for liberals to not lie


“ObamaCare was sold on a lie to the American people. Its crown jewel – the individual mandate – was unconstitutional when it was enacted and it is still unconstitutional," Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton said in a statement. "Yet, seven justices decided to avoid the question of the constitutionality by limiting its decision to a ruling on standing."

ObamaCare was one of the greatest scams ever pulled off.

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Trump when he comes back in August?


HAHAHAHA.  I think Trumpy missed his chance to roll out that fabulous healthcare plan he bragged about.