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former9thward

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8. Don't understand your comment about Medicare.

Reply to TheNutcracker (Reply #6)

Thu Mar 5, 2015, 03:09 PM

Mar 2015

Medicare is in all 50 states. It is paid for by the federal government. The states have nothing to do with it. The ACA, everyone agrees, had a role for states to play if they wanted. The legal question is whether the federal government could set up exchanges where the state elected not to.

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Dear SCOTUS: Health reforms intended for all under constitution [View all] TheNutcracker Mar 2015 OP

Kick to MSM....we need a real discussion... TheNutcracker Mar 2015 #1

This "State" business made me scratch my head as well when I read those six words. BlueCaliDem Mar 2015 #2

No place in the Constitution is word "state" former9thward Mar 2015 #3

We don't have MEDICARE in certain states as a fed law that states don't like. TheNutcracker Mar 2015 #6

Don't understand your comment about Medicare. former9thward Mar 2015 #8

. Takket Mar 2015 #4

Federal law is supreme but limited to the powers in the Constitution. WDIM Mar 2015 #5

Again, based on your assumption say goodbye to Medicare! TheNutcracker Mar 2015 #7