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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: Freeper on December 01, 2010, 08:54:00 PM
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An Error By Dems May Allow The Lawsuit Against Health Care Reform To Succeed Updated at 1:58 PM
An Error By Dems May Allow The Lawsuit Against Health Care Reform To Succeed
By Brian Beutler
November 30, 2010
Conservative foes of the Affordable Care Act want the federal courts to smother the new health care law in its crib. They've argued that Democrats failed to erect the proper safeguards to protect the legislation from being stricken down entirely by the courts. And when a Virginia district court judge rules in the coming days on the Constitutionality of the law's insurance mandate, he'll also have to decide whether none, some, or all of the law must go with it.
The obscure term of art here is "severability".
Quite often, legislators include what's known as a "severability clause" in their bills. These are meant to protect the bulk of a law in the event that a small portion of it is determined to be unconstitutional. That small portion must go, or be changed, but pretty much everything else is allowed to stand.
In a sin of omission, Democrats left such a clause out of the health care law, and now the plaintiffs in at least one of the cases against it want the court to take an axe to the whole thing if the judge decides that the individual mandate provision is unconstitutional.
Read the full article at:
http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/11/conservative...
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x9669088
I love how they call it the affordable care act.
So far my premiums have increased, and today I was prescribed a medication for high cholesterol that I can't afford so I won't be taking it. Yep the dems really fixed health care. :whatever:
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This is old news -- they are just joining the party now? This will hopefully be repealed shortly after the new year.
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This is old news -- they are just joining the party now? This will hopefully be repealed shortly after the new year.
Its not been a good day on the island - there is this, the error on the Dems food safety bill, and Wikileaks exposed the Oministration as actively participating in preventing trials of the Bush admin by other nations as a war criminal..
No Hague..
No frog march..
No toasty legs....
Lots and lots of laughs
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An Error By Dems May Allow The Lawsuit Against Health Care Reform To Succeed
Uh yeah, by far the biggest error they made was when they passed it.
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2,000+ pages with everything but coverage for a kitchen sink plug-up and they left that out...... :lmao:
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What was it Pelosi said again? Oh yeah:
"“But we have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it..."
Or in this case, what isn't in it.
:tongue:
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What was it Pelosi said again? Oh yeah:
"“But we have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it..."
Or in this case, what isn't in it.
:tongue:
Indeed - they should have read the bill first, what Obama promised would happen. Too bad, primitives.
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http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x9669088
I love how they call it the affordable care act.
So far my premiums have increased,
Same here Freeper. Affordable, huh?! :mental: It went up over 25 bucks a month.
Let's not forget all the jobs this wonderful bill has created. ::) :whatever:
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You'd think someone would have noticed that when they were reading the bill.
Oh, wait...
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Looks like it's not going to matter after all.