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DemocratSinceBirth

(101,999 posts) Tue Mar 26, 2019, 09:50 AM Mar 2019

Killing the ACA all at once would be more disruptive than a hard Brexit

Trump administration asks court to completely invalidate Obama's Affordable Care Act

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2019/03/26/trump-administration-asks-court-totally-repeal-obamas-affordable-care-act/?utm_term=.4f15e81cbc36

Health care is 18% of GDP. The government and private health insurance markets would be thrown into chaos. It would be like eliminating the interstate highway system. Every consumer of health care would be adversely affected whether they get their health care through Medicare, Medicaid, individual insurance, or employee based insurance.

This is our hill to die on.

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Killing the ACA all at once would be more disruptive than a hard Brexit (Original Post) DemocratSinceBirth Mar 2019 OP

It would destroy the individual market SHRED Mar 2019 #1

There aren't five votes in SCOTUS. There are four. DemocratSinceBirth Mar 2019 #2

What does the SC have to do with this? watoos Mar 2019 #4

Trump administration asks court to completely invalidate Obama's Affordable Care Act DemocratSinceBirth Mar 2019 #6

Yeah, I apologize, I looked it up. watoos Mar 2019 #7

This is Kabuki theater, watoos Mar 2019 #3

SCOTUS could invalidate the law DemocratSinceBirth Mar 2019 #5

Yeah, I apologize again, watoos Mar 2019 #8

SHRED

(28,136 posts)

1. It would destroy the individual market

Reply to DemocratSinceBirth (Original post)

Tue Mar 26, 2019, 09:53 AM

Mar 2019

Premiums for everyone else would skyrocket.

DemocratSinceBirth

(101,999 posts)

2. There aren't five votes in SCOTUS. There are four.

Reply to SHRED (Reply #1)

Tue Mar 26, 2019, 09:57 AM

Mar 2019

If Roberts flipped it would politicize SCOTUS and discredit them too, not as if it hasn't been politicized for years. SCOTUS would be seen as an auxiliary of the major parties.

watoos

(7,142 posts)

4. What does the SC have to do with this?

Reply to DemocratSinceBirth (Reply #2)

Tue Mar 26, 2019, 09:59 AM

Mar 2019

DemocratSinceBirth

(101,999 posts)

6. Trump administration asks court to completely invalidate Obama's Affordable Care Act

Reply to watoos (Reply #4)

Tue Mar 26, 2019, 10:01 AM

Mar 2019

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2019/03/26/trump-administration-asks-court-totally-repeal-obamas-affordable-care-act/?utm_term=.4f15e81cbc36

watoos

(7,142 posts)

7. Yeah, I apologize, I looked it up.

Reply to DemocratSinceBirth (Reply #6)

Tue Mar 26, 2019, 10:08 AM

Mar 2019

They actually filed a law suit in Texas I think.

watoos

(7,142 posts)

3. This is Kabuki theater,

Reply to DemocratSinceBirth (Original post)

Tue Mar 26, 2019, 09:58 AM

Mar 2019

designed to change the narrative away from releasing the Mueller report.

How is Trump going to abolish a law? Republicans have picked away at Obamacare to try to make it fail but Trump has no power to eliminate a law.

DemocratSinceBirth

(101,999 posts)

5. SCOTUS could invalidate the law

Reply to watoos (Reply #3)

Tue Mar 26, 2019, 09:59 AM

Mar 2019

watoos

(7,142 posts)

8. Yeah, I apologize again,

Reply to DemocratSinceBirth (Reply #5)

Tue Mar 26, 2019, 10:10 AM

Mar 2019

I see the law suit. I thought this was just another attempt to change the narrative away from the Mueller report, but it is real.

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