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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Democrats are doing a terrible job.  All they are doing for the most part are asking her questions about policy decisions, rather than questions about the law.  Harris and a bunch of other lightweights were basically telling Barrett to ignore the constitution so that some people don’t lose their health insurance. For goodness sake, if the ACA is unconstitutional bc the Ds did such a terrible job writing it and rushing to pass it, appellate judges and SCOTUS are just supposed to ignore that? How about Congress does their job and does it well in the first instance.[/quote]

How about republicans actually repeal it and replace it? Instead of running to the court to legislate? [/quote]

How about both parties actually do their job? I agree the republicans need to do more than turn to the courts but neither party is willing to compromise so here we are, with Democrats on the judiciary committee asking a prospective Supreme Court Justice whether she is willing to ignore the constitution and fix their sloppy work.[/quote]

Hmmm. SCOTUS has ruled that the ACA is constitutional -you don't like that answer, so you want to change the composition of the court to have the ACA ruled invalid. We see you, fascista![/quote]

Like many, my family will be directly effected if the ACA no longer exists.  But rather than getting personal, like you so maturely did, I’d rather Congress did their job and didn’t ask SCOTUS to make policy decisions.[/quote]

Congress did act, actually. When they take your feet, thank your congressman and Amy Covid-Barrett. [/quote]

Oh that’s right, the infamous bill that had to be passed in order to know what’s in it.  Yes, what a great way for Congress/Democrat majority to act.  No wonder we are here again before the Supreme Court.[/quote]

What are you talking about? It is the Republicans who keep asking the Supreme Court to throw out the ACA because they could not repeal it even when they had two years of control of the White House, Senate, and Congress, and it is Republicans who have been promising a better alternative to the ACA since 2009, and still have a blank sheet of paper.

The chief flaw of the ACA is that it was not a federal health insurance program. It relied on states and insurance companies to take generous federal assistance and act in good faith to offer health coverage to people who do not have employer-paid health plans. That did not happen in much of the country, because Republican Governors are assholes who refused to take the extra federal Medicaid money to expand coverage to their residents, and the Supreme Court ruled that Congress could not require them to do so, and because 95% of insurance companies only want to cover young healthy people with good jobs and dump everyone else on the government.

The House ACA version had a federal public option as a fallback for people who might be left out by shitty Republican Governors and cherry-picking insurance companies. The public option was removed in the Senate, thanks to Joe Lieberman, because the Senate's primary legislative role is to make concessions to corporate interest groups, in this case the insurance industry, to screw up progressive legislation.

Biden's plan is essentially to create a public health insurance option for low and moderate income people who are stuck with Republican governors and state legislatures that despise their consituents. [/quote]

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