Trump administration calls for Supreme Court to strike down ObamaCare

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

The Trump administration on Thursday night argued in a legal brief filed to the Supreme Court that the entire Affordable Care Act (ACA) should be invalidated.

The legal filing, while expected, makes official the Trump administration's position in the Supreme Court against the health law months ahead of the election, at a time when Democrats are hammering President Trump over his position on health care.

Overturning the ACA would take away health coverage for about 20 million people, and the stakes are even higher given the effects of the current pandemic.

The brief argues that because the law's requirement to have health insurance was upheld in court as a tax in 2012, and Congress has since repealed the financial penalty for violating that requirement, in 2017, it is no longer a tax and therefore no longer constitutional.

https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/health-insurance/504660-trump-administration-calls-for-supreme-court-to-strike

[elleng]

1. Convoluted way to toss it?

'The brief argues that because the law's requirement to have health insurance was upheld in court as a tax in 2012, and Congress has since repealed the financial penalty for violating that requirement, in 2017, it is no longer a tax and therefore no longer constitutional.'

[Hortensis]

2. Interesting campaign tactic. Or is it advance work for

his TV show?

SCOTUS might choose to combine it with all the filings ahead of it.

Reminds me of when he plays with his rally boobies by dropping in an assurance that he's doing away with coverage for preexisting conditions. The hooting and cheers already begun drop uncertainly while he grins, then he tosses them a lump of red meat, something like "How about that wall?!!," and relieved cheers explode again.

[Renew Deal]

3. Do it and we pass some sort of universal care in 2021!

Fighting to take people’s health care away during a pandemic seems like a winning idea.

[smirkymonkey]

4. Every day, a new, fresh hell.

Now that he knows that he's losing, fasten your seat belt. He's going for broke.