"I'm not going to blow up the Afforsable Care Act"

[brooklynite]

Amy Klobuchar in Manchester

Link to tweet

[bluewater]

1. No, the Republicans are going to try and do that and kill the ACA in court.

Chief Justice Roberts was the deciding vote to keep it last time because he agreed the Individual Mandate part made it a Tax Bill, and hence constitutional.

The Republicans stripped out the Individual Mandate and are again challenging the constitutionality of the ACA in court.

I think this is suppose to come to a head by June in the courts.

[UniteFightBack]

3. We have Democrats campaigning to blow it up as well. It's a great strategy.

[bluewater]

5. And the plan when the ACA is ruled unconstitutional is..... ?

Primary politics aside, that is the REAL question.

People are ignoring that while arguing over the different Democratic candidates' plans.

People need to focus on the real threat, the Republicans and Republican controlled Supreme Court.

[squirecam]

8. The Trump admin

Has no plan to protect those with pre-existing conditions. If the ACA goes down in June, I can imagine a backlash against Trump.

I imagine that’s why Roberts didn’t kill the ACA the first time.

[lunasun]

9. +1 with that argument gone * Yes but I'm afraid it will drag out past election by saying all lower

courts are not done yet with it .
That is what I have read because some decisions were made in appeals court but other parts kicked back to lower courts on what parts of ACA are included

Or they could hear it even sooner than June ....

*Congress in 2017 removed the law's tax penalty for not having health insurance but left the rest of the coverage requirement on the books leaving it open for this new challenge

[denem]

2. An affordable carr ? Act

[mr_lebowski]

4. Derek Carr will be glad to hear this, since his affordability is why he still has a QB job (nt)

[in2herbs]

6. The courts will do the job of blowing up the ACA for her, thanks for the Rs litigation. nt

[BeyondGeography]

7. The Enforceable Care Act will soon be unafforsable anyway

[Cha]

10. Good on Amy

[Scurrilous]

11. K&R

[betsuni]

12. K&R