June 25, 2020 at 11:00 p.m. CDT---Trump administration asks Supreme Court to strike down Obamacare

[spanone]

June 25, 2020 at 11:00 p.m. CDT

The Trump administration asked the Supreme Court late on Thursday to overturn the Affordable Care Act, telling the court that “the entire ACA must fall." The administration’s argument comes as thousands of Americans have turned to the government program for health care as they’ve lost jobs amidst the coronavirus pandemic.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) denounced the move.

“President Trump and the Republicans’ campaign to rip away the protections and benefits of the Affordable Care Act in the middle of the coronavirus crisis is an act of unfathomable cruelty," she said in a statement.

The brief was filed in support of a challenge to the ACA by a coalition of Republican governors. Trump had pledged earlier this month to follow through on overturning Obamacare despite the ongoing pandemic.

--paywall--https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/06/26/trump-obamacare-supreme-court-brief/

[Newest Reality]

1. Spite?

Ah, who hates the American people the most? That'll show 'em. No love, no healthcare!!!

Gee, we don't need any foreign enemies anymore, we have a sufficiently deadly domestic one who takes care of all our mandatory suffering and persecution needs quickly and conveniently and, like a good sworm enemy, may destroy us if possible.

I mean, it's like having an enemy delivered right to your door. Convenience.

[dalton99a]

2. The traitor is hellbent on killing as many Americans as he can.

[spanone]

16. unfuckingbelievable...during a pandemic. cruel fucker.

[Drunken Irishman]

3. Good. The Supreme Court won't overturn it and Trump just cut Biden a devastating ad this November.

[BGBD]

7. This

is exactly what I was coming in to say.

Somehow the Trump Administration is so far up their own asses that they think it's a good political move to try to knock millions of Americans off of their health insurance in the middle of the worst public health and employment crisis in a century.

Let's not forget that the single biggest issue in the 2018 Midterms, the same ones that ushered in a massive Democratic majority in the House, was healthcare. That hasn't gone away in two years and it has likely increased. This has little chance to succeeding, give Democrats across the board a huge target to attack, and only appeals to the people who were absolutely certain to vote republican already.

In the unlikely chance that it succeeds in court, democrats will pass another version of it immediately and it will likely be a much more conciliatory version to conservatives like Obamacare was.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

4. Republicans are hazardous to your health. Literally.

[Generic Brad]

5. Trump clearly saw Biden's speech today

Biden asked him to show compassion for those suffering in this pandemic and stop all challenges to the Affordable Healthcare Act. I believe this is Trump’s response.

[elleng]

10. Likely prepared to file well before Joe Biden's speech today,

dumb when first conceived, and dumber now.

[Ms. Toad]

6. I am exhausted from fighting for my daughter's life.

She is currently on a marketplace plan.

Because her former employer went bankrupt, and her new employer has a delay before she was permitted to enroll AND the plan year is different, she will have three out-of-pocket maxes in the space of 16 months. An out-of-pocket max for her means she will actually pay that amount of money (a total of between $8,000 and $10,000 if we are lucky; $16,000 if we aren't). Her billed expenses are $200,000 each and every year. So it is rare that we get more than a month into a plan without paying the full out-of-pocket maximum for the year.

I am at least grateful that this decision is not coming out by early July - because she is currently in the very small window in which she has to decide whether to shift to her employer's plan or stick with the unsubsidized marketplace plan. The latter is likely cheaper - but NO ONE (including the authors of the ACA) can tell us whehter the cost-sharing for the already-met out of pocket will retovert to the full $8,000 if she shifts to an unsubsidized plan or whether they are fixed at the start of the plan. If they were set to rip it out of our hands before October (her new plan year), that would change the calculation.

But I'm so fucking tired of all of the constant attack on her life.

[questionseverything]

12. i am so sorry

people need to have healthcare because they are human beings not because they paid enough to whatever "plan" they happen to be in

[Ms. Toad]

13. Thanks.

It's been a rollercoaster, and each time I believe it is over, Trump, et al, raise the spectre that they are going to make it impossible for me to care for my daughter.

[dalton99a]

17. +1

[Doodley]

8. Trump thinks it's a vote winner and he'll be doing what his base wants.

[elleng]

9. Dumber than I thought.

[Doodley]

11. He's desperate. He sees Biden is in the lead and thinks he can claw his way back by

pandering to his base. He thinks they want him to get rid of ACA because it is anti-big government. He thinks they like want to ignore Covid too to let the economy come back. And he thinks he must look tough against BLM, to appear as the law and order candidate, while dog whistling. On every count, it will cost him more votes.

[Dan]

15. No, not because it is anti-big government

But because it’s ObamaCare..... that Black dude did it, therefore it must be bad.

I find it so funny that when the program is identified as the ACA - some of his base loves it;

When you say ObamaCare ... they hate it.

There is a level of stupidity in this nation that should be put in a can and given out as a Halloween treat.

[struggle4progress]

14. Putin says: "You must cut healthcare during this pandemic! Jump, Trump, jump!"