Despite the court’s clear signal that it has settled the major legal challenges to the law, plenty of hurdles remain, including undiminished GOP zeal to impede or destroy the ACA. The largest group of uninsured is in deep-red Texas. Justice Kennedy stressed that the Supreme Court long has protected a fundamental right to marry and that laws prohibiting marriage equality impermissibly discriminate against gays and lesbians. Trumka demanded the Republicans halt those efforts.
Advertisement
In Virginia, Florida and other states, Americans have been able to obtain coverage through the federal exchange.
This issue has now been settled by the Supreme Court…the political games should end…It’s time for Georgia to eliminate this gap in healthcare coverage, and expand Medicaid. O’Sullivan, in his criticisms, was.
The King v. Burwell upheld this portion of the ACA, holding that the federal government may provide subsidies to those who purchase insurance via the federal exchange. Ask Republican politicians to name their top priority for the country and they’ll likely talk about balancing the budget. “Let’s put a stop to extremist attempts to tear down this law today”.
Republican Brian Babin represents Texas’ 36th Congressional District in the U.S. House of Representatives. Hillary Clinton said it was time for anti-Obamacare Republicans to “move on”, while Sen.
It’s not happening. The Affordable Care Act is here to stay.
The most compelling reason for opponents to stop challenging the law: It is working for average people.
Republicans then would have been under enormous pressure to figure out how to let people keep their insurance.
“The way we do that, the way – we’re frankly on the leading edge of this in Medi-caid reform here in Indiana, as you know – is through consumer-driven health care”, he said on the Fox News show. Namely, the law does nothing to control rising health care costs. Other unions, including the Steel Workers and the Communications Workers, are also campaigning to repeal the “Cadillac tax”. About 10 million are in the plans now.
“Health Care Edge is one of my top resources”. ” “The fees and taxes make the ‘Affordable” in the ACA an oxymoron”.
The court found, in a 6-3 ruling written by Chief Justice John Roberts, that people living in states that chose not to participate in setting up their own health exchange could still qualify for insurance subsidies. I dare say that the increasingly hollow rallying cry of “repeal and replace” hasn’t seen its last election cycle. In fact, popular support for Obamacare was rooted in the desire to address problems created by prior government interference in the health care marketplace.
America’s health care system is just as unsustainable as our foreign policy and our monetary system.
In a surprise ruling on housing discrimination, the court said discrimination need not be intentional in order to be illegal.
Advertisement
In light of the Court’s ruling, millions of Americans will still get subsidized health insurance. That means the approximately 60 percent of Americans who live in those states will continue to receive health care coverage under the provisions of Obamacare.
