Obamacare ruling

[waxthis]

Unreal..Well there you have it, the constitution is no more....

[yankeefan98121]

fucking thing passed

[tmleadr03]

Damn, we really did post it exactly the same time! Yours is better written, but I was driving down I25 when I posted. LOL!

[RMD]

It was upheld as a TAX.

If there's any silver lining, it's that SCOTUS stopped the feds from using the commerce clause as a tool to pass whatever they wanted.

[yankeefan98121]

fucking thing passed

yup, upheld

[RMD]

Mandate = tax = upheld. Scotusblog.com

This.

Roberts? Dang.

[asmo]

Kenndey's opening line:

In our view, the entire Act before us is invalid in its entirety.

Too bad it didn't hold

[asmo]

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.

[streetglideok]

I have a feeling this mess is not over yet.

[asmo]

If you want to read the ruling: http://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions...11-393c3a2.pdf

WARNING: If you read Scalia, Kennedy, Thomas, and Alito's dissent you will want to start shooting people in the streets.