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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSCOTUS won't strike down the ACA.
My guess is they strike down the individual mandate but keep the rest of the law.
The impact that will have on the actual ACA and its success is another story.
samnsara
(17,613 posts)..Then lets see how the trumpers react when THEIR FREE healthcare is on the chopping block.
Demsrule86
(68,539 posts)MoonlitKnight
(1,584 posts)Will states be unable to mandate car insurance if struck down?
Drunken Irishman
(34,857 posts)MoonlitKnight
(1,584 posts)Everyone else who has insurance has to pay.
I realize killing the poor who get sick is probably the Republican plan, but to say it causes no liability to others is patently wrong.
Mariana
(14,854 posts)It really isn't the same thing.
brush
(53,758 posts)If you own a body and live in it, you need health insurance.
Humor me. I'm being kind of silly this morning, but we do all need health care.
BusyBeingBest
(8,052 posts)dalton99a
(81,426 posts)OnDoutside
(19,949 posts)Hoyt
(54,770 posts)FakeNoose
(32,610 posts)... as soon as the Senate goes BLUE, the ACA will be saved and made much better for all of us.
Celerity
(43,240 posts)hammered in their first midterms. Even if we win both the GA run-offs (and thus are at 50-50), Senators like Manchin will hold Biden hostage to do the absolute bare minimum on a multiplicity of actionable items. You can forget the Public Option, expansion of either or both the lower federal courts and/or the SCOTUS, the ending of the filibuster (which will be used by the Rethugs to crush most all attempts at us passing anything of import), DC statehood (let alone the far more tenuous Puerto Rican statehood), etc etc.
2022 US Senate 'in-play' races
At-Risk (even if marginal) Dems
In order of risk
Georgia (IF Warnock wins the runoff with Loeffler)
Nevada Catherine Cortez Masto (Brian Sandoval would be by far the toughest Rethug to beat)
Arizona Mark Kelly (It will not be McSally running against him, lolol)
New Hampshire Maggie Hassan (her two strongest opponents would probably be Former Senator Kelly Ayotte and Governor Sununu)
Vermont Patrick Leahy (IF he retires, the very popular Rethug Governor Phil Scott may prove to be trouble)
Colorado Michael Bennet (I see little chance for him to lose)
Possible Rethug Flips
In order of risk
North Carolina Open Seat
Pennsylvania Open Seat
Wisconsin Ron Johnson (asshat deluxe, I fucking hate this clown)
Georgia Loeffler (unless we win it in the runoff)
Florida Marco Rubio
Iowa Chuck Grassley (may retire he will turn 90yo in the first year of his next term if he runs, if he retires we have a good shot, Vilsack should run, he should have ran in 2020!)
Kansas Jerry Moran Only shot we have, and it would be a good one, is if Sibelius runs this time, she should have ran in 2020!) If she refuses again, forget winning this seat.
Kentucky Rand Paul (fucking berk)
Ohio Rob Portman
Indiana Todd Young (no clue if Buttigieg would try, Indiana is SO Red now, ffs)
Missouri Roy Blunt
Demsrule86
(68,539 posts)We desperately need a 50 state strategy to address the Senate and states. I would someone new...maybe Stacey Abrams to run the DNC
C_U_L8R
(44,996 posts)Best and brightest, huh. Says a lot about Republicans as a whole.
Statistical
(19,264 posts)Without it they will argue the pre-existing condition protection violates their contract rights. If you can just get insurance without any penalty or added cost AFTER you get cancer that would cause rates to rise and then more healthy people drop out which pushes rates higher so more healthy people drop out because you know you can always get insurance after the fact.
The Republicans know the exchange plans baring huge government subsidies will eventually fail without the individual mandate.
We should have just gone for single payer or at least a public option. Damn you liberman.
Demsrule86
(68,539 posts)back to the f'ing 'messaging voters'.
Demsrule86
(68,539 posts)You need all ages to make this work. And what happens if someone who doesn't have insurance gets sick? Do we let them die. It should be put back but the rates and out of pocket must come down. We should point out in Georgia that the ACA doesn't just protest those who have it but allows our children to remain on our plan, mandates what service must be covered even in the workplace and provides free well care once a year.
mopinko
(70,067 posts)much to the surprise of experts, it turns out that when you make ins affordable, ppl buy it.
a lot of ppl got medicaid in states that expanded it.
and a lot of kids kit 27, and realized ins is a good thing to have.
Demsrule86
(68,539 posts)bill must go. If it was only about the mandate why did they agree to hear it?
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