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Supreme Court Upholds Key Obamacare Subsidies

posted by cmn32480 on Thursday June 25 2015, @04:25PM   Printer-friendly
from the your-tax-dollars-at-work dept.

HughPickens.com writes:

Reuters reports that the US Supreme Court has ruled 6 - 3 in favor of the nationwide availability of tax subsidies that are crucial to the implementation of President Barack Obama's signature healthcare law, handing a major victory to the President. It marked the second time in three years that the high court ruled against a major challenge to the law brought by conservatives seeking to gut it. "Congress passed the Affordable Care Act to improve health insurance markets, not to destroy them," wrote Chief Justice Roberts, who added that nationwide availability of the credits is required to "avoid the type of calamitous result that Congress plainly meant to avoid." The ruling will come as a major relief to Obama as he seeks to ensure that his legacy legislative achievement is implemented effectively and survives political and legal attacks before he leaves office in January 2017.

Justice Antonin Scalia took the relatively rare step of reading a summary of his dissenting opinion from the bench. "We really should start calling the law SCOTUScare," said Scalia, referencing the court's earlier decision upholding the constitutionality of the law (SCOTUS is the acronym for the Supreme Court of the United States).

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  • (Score: 5, Insightful) by M. Baranczak on Thursday June 25 2015, @05:09PM

    by M. Baranczak (1673) on Thursday June 25 2015, @05:09PM (#201083)
    Libertarianism is like Communism. It looks good on paper, but it fails when you try to apply it in the real world. And when you point out those failures, some true believer will always pipe up and say "That's because they're not doing it right!".
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  • (Score: 2) by curunir_wolf on Thursday June 25 2015, @05:15PM

    by curunir_wolf (4772) on Thursday June 25 2015, @05:15PM (#201087)

    Libertarianism is like Communism. It looks good on paper, but it fails when you try to apply it in the real world. And when you point out those failures, some true believer will always pipe up and say "That's because they're not doing it right!".

    I've seen those examples for Communism. What failed Libertarian state are you referring to?

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    • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 25 2015, @05:48PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 25 2015, @05:48PM (#201112)

      > What failed Libertarian state are you referring to?

      Name one successful libertarian state.
      Hell, name one libertarian state.

      Are they unicorns because nobody is doing it right? Or is it because they are so inherently unstable that they can't even get to the starting line?

    • (Score: 4, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 25 2015, @08:29PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 25 2015, @08:29PM (#201216)

      Somalia and Honduras are two good examples.

  • (Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 25 2015, @11:51PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 25 2015, @11:51PM (#201306)

    Why is an article about healthcare and taxation being posted on a tech news site? If it was about "your rights online", fine, that's related to what I can do with my PC. But this?