It is difficult to tell who may be most relieved by the Supreme Court decision to save the Affordable Care Act, those who would have been left hanging without insurance, or congressional Republicans who would have been left hanging without an alternative to the ACA.
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Jorg,
The Founding Fathers must be rolling over in their graves.
It is clear that the separation of powers that they devised with three separate branches of government was to protect the people from those in power.
They understood that men in power can not be trusted.
A purpose of the Supreme Court is to test the constitutionality of laws as written by the Congress.
We now have the discouraging truth that the SCOTUS favors some laws over others and finds itself free to rewrite laws established by the Congress, or interpret them according to personal political leanings.
About three years ago Chief Justice Roberts managed to twist the term “penalty” to mean “tax” in order to save the ACA. Brings to mind the question of what the definition of “is” is.
Now Justice Roberts finds that “established by the State” does not mean what it says.
He apparently thinks that he understands what the Congress intended better than what Jonathan Gruber wrote for the Congress to turn into law.
Don’t you think the Founding Fathers would sleep better if laws were corrected by the lawmakers, rather then being modified or misinterpreted by the SCOTUS to suit a political agenda?
Nancy Pelosi said the ACA with 1600 pages had to be passed in order to find out what was in it.
Pass it, then read it.
One of its clever arrangements was to postpone the implementation of the big hammer, the “Employer Mandate” until after the 2016 election.
Hmm. Wonder why?
Just sayin’.
Al Ward
Yes, Al, – I’m sure the Founding Fathers would have slept better if this obvious oversight in the ACA law had been corrected by Congress! No question about that, except that the Republican controlled House refused to do so, – in an all too obvious attempt at sabotaging President Obama’s health care law. They expected that the rather conservative SCOTUS would use this opportunity to kill Obama’s signature law. Instead, the Supreme court did their job, interpreting the intent of ACA, namely to improve health care in the US, not go against the law makers, like the three notorious Right-wingers on the court actually did, with Scalia in particular having a fit over the whole issue. No, this silly thing should never have gone to the Supreme Court, and never would have if Congress had done their job instead of yet another attempt at destroying Obama’s presidency. Instead, the events of last week will go down in history as President Obama’s legacy and elevate him to perhaps the most influential president in recent times, – in a positive sense, that is, – and not in a negative manner like George W. Bush managed to do. A good week for the US, and several good steps closer to catching up with the more progressive, enlightened countries.