SCOTUS Just Eviscerated Obamacare Opponents - and Ridiculed their English Language Skills

[sheshe2]

It would seem ordinary under any other set of historical circumstances, but the fierce ideological opposition to the President's crowning achievement in office - the health care law that is now responsible for insuring 17 million additional Americans and dropping the uninsured rate to the lowest in history - has been no less virulent, vicious and cruel than the Tea Party White Supremacist movement's conspiracy theory that President Obama conspired to alter his birth certificate from the womb.

The Supreme Court's decision today upholding subsidies to purchase health insurance in all states' exchanges, regardless of whether such an exchange was established by the state or failing that, by the federal government, was a unambiguous thumping victory for the Obama administration and millions of Americans who depend on that subsidy to be able to afford health insurance for themselves and their children. But it was more than that: it was a devastating blow to Obamacare opponents in which the Court went so far as to mock their language skills.

First, a little "I told you so." All the way back in 2011, I previewed the case and asserted that the opponents who claimed that the law only allows premium tax credits (the subsidies) for only exchanges created by a state authority was about the dumbest argument anyone could make, given the law's express authorization to the HHS to establish "such exchanges" in cases where a state failed to do so. "Such exchanges", I said, would clearly have all the regulations and benefits as any other exchange (i.e. those established by a state authority).

Chief Justice Roberts, writing for the majority, broke down the decision in almost exactly those terms. Roberts returned again and again to the law's language of "such exchanges" established by the federal government, holding finally that (a) those are exchanges under the ACA, (b) that for the purposes of each requirement imposed on the exchanges and the people it serves that the two are substantially the same and that Congress intended them to be so, and (c) that as such, Americans who buy their insurance through the federally run exchanges in cases where states choose not to establish their own are eligible for the same tax credits as provided to those in exchanges established by a state authority.

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It's no wonder the President took a proverbial sharp object and poked his health care critics in the eye in his press conference today. He knows what they know: the battle against Obamacare is over, and Obama won it by a couple of touchdowns.

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[yallerdawg]

1. Is President Obama having a good week...

or what?

The best is yet to come?

The lives lost in Charleston have moved the entire country in unanticipated directions, and I'd say we are moving in the right (left) direction! Another bittersweet victory out of tragedy.

It is always hard for President Obama. For 'this' president.

[sheshe2]

2. Born out of saddness...

Yes he did have a good week. I was a little nervous about SCOTUS ruling. It should have been 9-0 yet I am so happy with the outcome.

This one I am praying for, yallerdawg.