Day 2: Supreme Court Looks at Affordable Care Act Case
This week, the U.S. Supreme Court is considering a lawsuit brought against the federal government by Texas and 25 other states that questions the constitutionality of several key aspects of the 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. The Texas Tribune and KTRK-TV in Houston have partnered to cover these proceedings by showing you how the law has already affected some residents and by curating content that explains what's at stake for nearly 6 million Texans who remain uninsured.
On Monday, the justices considered oral arguments over whether the fact that a taxation provision in the Affordable Care ...
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Karen Spivey-Cummings via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Tea Party patriots do not have a clue as to what the GOP have in store for them and the bleak health care picture if the individual mandate is not upheld. They bought into the GOP LIES.
Karen Spivey-Cummings via Texas Tribune on Facebook
The GOP also want to dismantle SS and Medicare.......
Gary Joslin via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Whether that proves out or not is no justification for enacting an unprecedented expansion of Congressional power.
T D
Gary, it's called progress. And I for one don't want to go back to the Gilded Age (which wasn't so gilded for most Americans).
The rest of the world cares for its citizens' health in a rational manner. Why should those with cash have better access to the best health care?
Stephen J Wright via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Gary-maybe true, but I wish Republicans had thought of this argument when THEY were coming up with the idea if an individual mandate. Other ideas that were originally part of GOP compromises? Cap-and-trade, lower taxes on the middle class, and a military that joines international coailitions to attempt to bring about greater good. Now, somehow these are all Obamaplots and liberal manuevers. It's a topsy-turver Tea Party!
Rudy Gonzales
Governor Rick Perry threatened to veto any legislation creating any exchange, which would provide small business's pooling of services for more favorable rates and even subsidies. Yet Perry says Texas is open for business under Perry's terms. These exchanges are operated by the states as independent corporations with their own boards. Republican's previously backed and supported health care reform and sought it's implementation. Had they acted and brought forth their version of health care, they could and would have allowed stacking of the governing boards to be filled with their own people who would run the boards under their control. Perry currently rewards his closest friends and supporters with plush jobs with the best of perks. The current Health Care law was written with specific writing to limit any governors appointments to these boards and the boards have total independence from the governors and is directed by the federal government. These independent boards would follow the letter of the law as directed by the federal government. But Governor's cannot control these boards and they want control like they have over the Medicaid boards which have voucher-ed federal monies. That's why Rick Perry and the other states have sued to stop federal controls of federal monies in the new Health Care Law. Every state controlled by TEA-GOP-Republican have files suit to not allow implementation of the federal law as it currently stands. Than ks to Rick Perry women will suffer the consequences of his narrow-minded fringe view.