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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The dems are fear mongering again on pre-existing conditions.  Yawn...[/quote]

Where's the written guarantee from the GOP that they'll protect them???[/quote]

The GOP is suing to get rid of protections for preexisting conditions as well as abolish the ACA, stripping millions of Americans of health insurance.

You may not fear that, but I sure do. I have preexisting conditions. I need health insurance to stay alive.

Yawn as much as you want. I hope a fly lands in your mouth and lays eggs, maggot.[/quote]

Plus, the Supreme Court issue is the ridiculous notion that it is unconstitutional for Congress to enact a law to regulate health insurance. This I how loony Republicans have become, to claim that Congress is not permitted to regulate commerce. [/quote]

The issue is not whether Congress can regulate interstate commerce, that is clear.  The issue is whether what Congress did in ordering individual people to purchase something is unconstitutional (revisiting the previous issues since Congress changed the penalty for failure to purchase coverage to zero) and if that individual mandate is unconstitutional whether the whole ACA is unconstitutional or if that individual provision is severable.  So no, the provision being challenge is not whether Congress can regulate interstate commerce.[/quote]

Of course the individual mandate is not unconstitutional, but even in Republican fairyland where regulating commerce is unconstitutional if Obama did it, of course it is severable. Throwing out the whole law over the mandate is a dishonest legal argument that should have been rejected out of hand. It is ridiculous and brings dishonor to the federal judiciary that it even got to the Supreme Court. In essence, it is an argument that Democrats are not permitted to regulate commerce, because severability would never be questioned if this were not Obama’s law. [/quote]

And yet it was the court RGB was on that agreed to review the case....[/quote]

I didn’t criticize the Supreme Court for taking the case. They had to because of the partisan clown judge in Texas and the partisan clown judges in the 5th Circuit who accepted the idiotic argument because it was made by Republicans. Those joke rulings are the dishonor to the federal judiciary. Trump’s promise that his nominees will rule against ACA is what brings dishonor to the Supreme Court.

This is not even about the individual mandate. This case is stupider than that. The GOP argument is that the Republicans zeroing out the tax/penalty  somehow invalidated the entire statute. Nobody took this bullshit argument seriously but Republicans have put some unqualified partisans on the bench who rule based on the parties rather than the law. [/quote]

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