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

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: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Thursday June 25 2015, @05:54PM

    by MichaelDavidCrawford (2339) Subscriber Badge <mdcrawford@gmail.com> on Thursday June 25 2015, @05:54PM (#201117) Homepage Journal

    the government is subsidizing job training, see.

    Look at the big picture, the entire economy as a system. it was once quite common to declare bankrupcy due to medical bills. that doesnt happen much anymore.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 25 2015, @07:04PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 25 2015, @07:04PM (#201163)

    Singlepayer is better, more efficient, and would actually insure everyone, unlike Obamacare. Companies have a profit motive are not ashamed to act greedy, so we end up paying far more than is necessary.

    Student loans are corporate welfare too

    Indeed, and they're being handed them out like candy. Universities and colleges are for people who, above all, want to get a deep, well-rounded academic understanding of the universe, not so people can get good jobs. It disgusts me that so many people who think of colleges and universities as mere job training are allowed in; they don't understand education in the least. Any good jobs are a secondary benefit. Standards should be far higher for all colleges and universities, to eliminate the trash.

    • (Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Thursday June 25 2015, @07:22PM

      by MichaelDavidCrawford (2339) Subscriber Badge <mdcrawford@gmail.com> on Thursday June 25 2015, @07:22PM (#201177) Homepage Journal

      it is easy to demonstrate that camadians pay less for their health care and that they live longer.

      the reason that we dont have single payer is that the law would not be passed if we tried.

      The system we have now saves money, makes us healthier and gives us an opportunity to work towards something better, for example by finding a way to get the money out of politics.

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  • (Score: 2) by curunir_wolf on Thursday June 25 2015, @08:36PM

    by curunir_wolf (4772) on Thursday June 25 2015, @08:36PM (#201217)

    it was once quite common to declare bankrupcy due to medical bills. that doesnt happen much anymore.

    Actually, it happens at exactly the same rate, when other economic conditions are taken into account.

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