If the Supreme Court strikes down the ACA, what do we do with health care?

[Tyfairbanks600]

Would we even be allowed to pass a new federal healthcare law?

[Le Roi de Pot]

1. If they do ..they will allow time for Congress to fix or allow orderly transition to hell

[Arazi]

2. Exactly how or why would they do that?

[Le Roi de Pot]

4. The will let insurance exchange to remain operational for a few months and policies sold through it

Valid for many months or a year

[Arazi]

11. The protections under the ACA will disappear immediately

Oh you might still get a "policy" but it will be the bad old days - exorbitant rates for women and PECs (if they cover them at all), children under 26 kicked off their parents policies.

The insurance companies used to be able to kick you off if you came down with cancer by finding a bogus PEC like a yeast infection. Those days will be back immediately

[Tyfairbanks600]

3. Lol if you seriously think that

What, do you think the Repubs on the Court are kind and ethical or something?

[Boogiemack]

5. We re-do it in the blue states so long as we have voted in Dem state legislatures. We do that until

Biden, Nancy and Schumer put ACAII on the table with either a public option for Medicare OR Medicare for all.

[Ilsa]

10. That would be such irony, if the GOP takedown

of the ACA resulted in Medicare For All.

[unblock]

6. depends on what reasoning they use to strike it down.

if they strike it down because of the mandate, then it's a simple matter to word it.

instead of a penalty for not buying insurance (presumably the grounds for deeming it unconstitutional), you simply raise everyone's taxes by the amount of the penalty and then give a tax credit to anyone who does by insurance.

the math works out the same, but tax credits for buying certain things have passed constitutional muster. like electric cars and solar panels and such.

[regnaD kciN]

7. Simple: we die...

[JCMach1]

12. If Trump wins or we don't take the Senate, yes. I am staring

Down this barrel with two of Covid holes in my lungs

[Golden Raisin]

8. Get sick and then die.

Republicans don't give a sh*t. Just don't drop dead anywhere near their gated communities.

[maxsolomon]

9. "Allowed"?

It depends on whether the Dems want to go through the process again. It took a year, had to get around the Filibuster, and led to the Tea Party takeover of Congress.

I don't relish another decade with the GOP in power.

[PSPS]

13. If Biden is smart, this will never happen again.

Get rid of this minority rule once and for all.

- Assume control of the House and Senate
- Eliminate the filibuster rule
- Expand the Supreme Court to at least 13 and fill 4 seats with non-ideological (i.e., qualified) justices
- Pass legislation to fix gerrymandering, voting rights, voter registration, vote suppression, etc.

Once this is done, no republican will win an election again until they convincingly let go of their anti-american platform and this includes any dreams they have of changing the makeup of the supreme court as "revenge." Every piece of legislation that moscow mitch is sitting on has the support of almost everyone in the country.

[keithbvadu2]

14. Wait two weeks for the Trump plan to go into effect.

Wait two weeks for the Trump plan to go into effect.

of course.