Supreme Court’s conservative justices appeared deeply skeptical of mandate's constitutional basis
... so the GOPer judges are ready to find the mandate does not have a constitutional basis.
That's fine. It is therefor unconstitutional to mandate that I shall pay for the medical care of those who do not have insurance and can't pay for their health care. It is clear then, that I cannot be taxed to fund the Government's Disproportionate Share Hospital program - which compensates hospitals for providing care for those who cannot pay for it.
Those who didn't want to be part of their community, who wanted to 'go it alone' with regard to medical insurance and who did not want to be 'forced' to get health insurance - they can live (or die) with their decision. That is, if they show up at a hospital in a few years needing medical attention - they will have to pay cash - up front, for their medical care. They wouldn't want the community they didn't want to be a part of, to help them out then would they?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/supreme-court-considers-main-constitutional-question-in-health-care-law/2012/03/26/gIQAkyKWdS_story.html?wpisrc=nl_pmpolitics
The Supreme Courts conservative justices appeared deeply skeptical that the Constitution gives Congress the power to compel Americans to either purchase health insurance or pay a penalty, as the court completed two hours of debate Tuesday on the key component of the nations health-care overhaul law.
Justice Anthony M. Kennedy, traditionally the justice most likely to side with the courts liberals, suggested that the 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act invoked a power beyond what our cases allow the Congress to wield in regulating interstate commerce.
Can you create commerce in order to regulate it? he asked.
The arguments revealed a familiar alignment of the court. Its four liberal justices, appointed by Democratic presidents Bill Clinton and Barack Obama, supported the governments argument. But one of the five conservatives appointed by Republican presidents Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush would be needed to uphold the act, and all at some point resisted the governments position. Their sharp questioning raised doubts about whether the individual insurance mandate could survive the Supreme Courts historic review.
Lint Head
(15,064 posts)Loudly
(2,436 posts)and expanded Medicare eligibility.
No constitutional problem with that.
But they didn't have the political will to do it.
Their cowardice and corruption will now be invalidated by the Court.
Bill USA
(6,436 posts)win Republican votes - used the individual mandate, first proposed by Republicans in the Clinton administration. If you are going to keep for profit insurance companies involved and you prohibit denial of coverage for pre-existing conditions you must have everybody in the pool.
so much for trying to please everybody at the same time.
Loudly
(2,436 posts)AndyTiedye
(23,500 posts)Our 60th vote was LIEberman (D?, Insurance State). There is nothing that could possibly make LIEberman vote against the insurance industry.
Bill USA
(6,436 posts)madrchsod
(58,162 posts)the government makes me pay for my medicare...
madrchsod
(58,162 posts)Gabby Hayes
(289 posts)In anticipation of a favorable Supreme Court ruling and subsequent rise in hospital district taxes, Governor Perry is floating ideas aimed at doing away with laws prohibiting patient dumping and refusal of emergency care for the uninsured. It's long been said that Perry's TeaBum supporters are dumb enough to sign their own execution order into law.......
Kablooie
(18,645 posts)Insurance will provide guaranteed payment so it will be accepted.
Let all the riff-raff die if they don't have thousands sitting in the bank, I say!
That will clear our streets of all the bums, construction workers, sales clerks, fast food employees and anyone else who isn't born with a tidy nest egg in the bank!
Of course if you are rich enough to pay but come in unconscious and lost your credit cards you will be denied service and die but that's your own fault. You shouldn't have become unconscious in the first place.