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Current Events => Breaking News => Topic started by: Gina on August 12, 2011, 02:39:37 PM
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WASHINGTON — (Reuters) A U.S. appeals court ruled Friday that President Barack Obama's healthcare law requiring Americans to buy healthcare insurance or face a penalty was unconstitutional, a blow to the White House.
The U.S. Appeals Court for the 11th Circuit, based in Atlanta, found that Congress exceeded its authority by requiring Americans to buy coverage, but also ruled that the rest of the wide-ranging law could remain in effect.
The legality of the so-called individual mandate, a cornerstone of the healthcare law, is widely expected to be decided by the U.S. Supreme Court. The Obama administration has defended the provision as constitutional.
NH Union Leader (http://www.unionleader.com/article/20110812/NEWS12/110819957&source=RSS)
:yahoo:
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Breaking, and joyous news indeed! Thanks for the report, Gina.
:cheersmate: :hyper: :yahoo:
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Breaking, and joyous news indeed! Thanks for the report, Gina.
:cheersmate: :hyper: :yahoo:
I'll take some ^5's :naughty:
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You've got it.
I :heart: this story. :-) :popcorn:
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The U.S. Appeals Court for the 11th Circuit, based in Atlanta, found that Congress exceeded its authority by requiring Americans to buy coverage, but also ruled that the rest of the wide-ranging law could remain in effect.
Horseshit.
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Here's a real money quote from the dissenting opinion:
Circuit Judge Stanley Marcus said in a lengthy dissent that the majority ignored the "undeniable fact that Congress' commerce power has grown exponentially over the past two centuries, and is now generally accepted as having afforded Congress the authority to create rules regulating large areas of our national economy."
from Boston Globe (http://www.boston.com/business/healthcare/articles/2011/08/12/appeals_court_strikes_health_insurance_requirement/?p1=News_links)
This is exactly the mindset that we do NOT need, not matter how exponentially the control Congress has grabbed in the past two centuries. This is what we need to dial back.
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The U.S. Appeals Court for the 11th Circuit, based in Atlanta, found that Congress exceeded its authority by requiring Americans to buy coverage, but also ruled that the rest of the wide-ranging law could remain in effect.
The legislation didn't have a severability clause did it?
If any portion is ruled unconstitutional, the whole thing is.
At least that is what I recall from previous news articles on this POS law.
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The legislation didn't have a severability clause did it?
If any portion is ruled unconstitutional, the whole thing is.
At least that is what I recall from previous news articles on this POS law.
That is true. There is no severability clause.
http://hotair.com/archives/2011/02/02/video-lack-of-severability-in-obamacare-a-colossal-mistake/
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Hi,
Folks I was as excited as anyone with the court ruling but let's not forget this. The government still has the right to go into the health insurance business. So if there is no mandate, that only helps a little. The government still can price all other insurance companies out of the market so they are the only one left standing.
Point is the whole damn bill needs to be ruled unconstitutional. The last thing we need is for them to "freeze" all other aspects of the law and then try to figure out how to fix the one exception. My fear is the libs will try to do just that and there is a whole lot more in that bill that is unacceptable.
We need to make sure that whoever finally wins the nomination is very clear that the first thing they are going to do is bust their butt to get the entire law repealed!
regards,
5412
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Obama?...Mandate?...now that you mention it, there were a couple of queers that claimed to have had a fling with Obama.
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At least this is one chip out of the wall of obastardville.
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I'll take some ^5's :naughty:
^5 sent your way ...
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Obama?...Mandate?...now that you mention it, there were a couple of queers that claimed to have had a fling with Obama.
:lmao: Love your brain
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The U.S. Appeals Court for the 11th Circuit, based in Atlanta, found that Congress exceeded its authority by requiring Americans to buy coverage, but also ruled that the rest of the wide-ranging law could remain in effect.
That is exactly what Obama and the left wants. Without all the young healthy people being forced to buy insurance, the companies will go bankrupt having to insure all the old, and sick and those who soon will be. Insurance companies go tits up, then people will demand the government insure them.
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Obama?...Mandate?...now that you mention it, there were a couple of queers that claimed to have had a fling with Obama.
Didn't two or three of Soetoro's purported homo lovers turn up dead from vincefosteritis?
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I'll take some ^5's :naughty:
+1.