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).
(Score: 2) by curunir_wolf on Thursday June 25 2015, @08:36PM
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.
I am a crackpot
(Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Friday June 26 2015, @12:25AM
i expect theyre way down since 2007.
I fled the country in 2003 so i would not have to declare bankrupcy over a $3,000.00 bill.
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(Score: 2) by curunir_wolf on Sunday June 28 2015, @03:30PM
I am a crackpot