Saturday Reads: Why do they want us to Die?
Posted: December 15, 2018 Filed under: morning reads | Tags: Affordable Care Act, Pre existing conditions 23 Comments
Good Morning Sky Dancers!
I have a pre-exisiting condition. I developed cancer when I was pregnant with my youngest and was diagnosed about 5 months after her birth with inoperable 4th stage cancer. I asked my ob/gyn if she had to choose a type of cancer would this be it. She said no because, to this day, I’m the only one who appears to have recovered from this form of leiomyosarcoma. Many cancer survivors–like me and the children in these pictures– as well as many others living with other illnesses breathed a sigh of relief when the Affordable Healthcare Act passed. I was no longer at the mercy of an employer with a stellar health plan. I could get health care.
Many Republican controlled states and the Republicans throughout all levels of government have sworn to kill the ACA. The weird thing is a lot of them ran this last election promising they supported this feature of the ACA while they were actively supporting the very lawsuit that would put people like me and these kids in jeopardy.
Here’s how one crazy judge in Texas has put many lives in danger. At the very least, it will head back to SCOTUS. This is the bottom line via Axios.
The Affordable Care Act, President Obama’s signature achievement, may be headed back to the Supreme Court after a conservative federal judge in Texas struck down the individual mandate as unconstitutional last evening.
Be smart: This really could end with the Affordable Care Act being wiped out. There’s no guarantee that a more conservative Supreme Court won’t just let the law die.
How did one judge rule the entire ACA unconstitutional? Here’s the coverage from WAPO by Amy Goldstein.
A federal judge in Texas threw a dagger into the Affordable Care Act on Friday night, ruling that the entire health-care law is unconstitutional because of a recent change in federal tax law.
The opinion by U.S. District Judge Reed O’Connor overturns all of the sprawling law nationwide.
The ruling came on the eve of the deadline Saturday for Americans to sign up for coverage in the federal insurance exchange created under the law. If the ruling stands, it would create widespread disruption across the U.S. health-care system — from no-charge preventive services for older Americans on Medicare to the expansion of Medicaid in most states, to the shape of the Indian Health Service — in all, hundreds of provisions in the law that was a prized domestic achievement of President Barack Obama.
President Trump, who has made the dismantling of the ACA a chief goal since his campaign, swiftly tweeted his pleasure at the opinion. “As I predicted all along, Obamacare has been struck down as an UNCONSTITUTIONAL disaster!” the president wrote just after 9 p.m. “Now Congress must pass a STRONG law that provides GREAT healthcare and protects pre-existing conditions.”
That’s right. One small change through many lives in jeopardy. We now have rampant uncertainty in the health insurance market. Here’s more information via Bloomberg.
U.S. District Judge Reed O’Connor in Fort Worth agreed with a coalition of Republican states led by Texas that he had to eviscerate the Affordable Care Act, the signature health-care overhaul by President Barack Obama, after Congress last year zeroed out a key provision — the tax penalty for not complying with the requirement to buy insurance.
“Today’s ruling is an assault on 133 million Americans with preexisting conditions, on the 20 million Americans who rely on the ACA’s consumer protections for health care, and on America’s faithful progress toward affordable health care for all Americans,” California Attorney General Xavier Becerra said in a statement, leading a chorus of Democrats who blasted the decision. A spokeswoman for Becerra vowed a quick challenge to O’Connor’s ruling.
Obamacare was struck down by a Texas federal judge in a ruling that casts uncertainty on insurance coverage for millions of U.S. residents.
The decision Friday finding the Affordable Care Act unconstitutional comes at the tail end of a six-week open enrollment period for the program in 2019 and underscores a divide between Republicans who have long sought to invalidate the law and Democrats who fought to keep it in place.
So, that’s all I have time to post today as I’m covering for our BB who is under the weather. Also, I’m headed out to see what’s available to me on this last day of ability to apply for coverage under the ACA.
What’s on your reading and blogging list today?
Bait and switch. “Mexico will pay for the wall!” “Coal jobs are coming back!” “Companies won’t lay anyone off!” Why any voter believes these Republican frauds I have no idea.
These people are stupid. That’s all I can say and blinded by hate.
This is so exhausting. And they still don’t have a plan of their own, right?
That’s not entirely fair. I believe Alan Grayson summed up the plan years ago. “Don’t get sick, and if you do die quickly.”
(Oh, you meant a good plan.)
Oh right…forgot about that one…hahahaha
of course not, the ACA IS the republican health plan and the one from the heritage foundation … that’s the always been the kicker. it’s the one the insurance companies wrote in the 1990s
Yep. Obamacare is Romneycare. Of course the Repugs “forget” that.
BB – please get well soon! Miss the cats today – lol!
Dak – that is not to say I don’t appreciate the adorable kids. Loved the parks yesterday, too.
Very glad to see Zinke going down in flames. It’s always a spectacle when one of Dump’s cabinet leaves, isn’t it? Nikki Haley only dignified departure so far.
Shady business deals? Like boss, like cabinet secretary.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/interior-secretary-zinke-resigns-amid-investigations/2018/12/15/481f9104-0077-11e9-ad40-cdfd0e0dd65a_story.html?utm_term=.79c7dfb80582
These guys all seem to go out whining and crying foul – like man-baby snowflakes.
Ditto that Enheduanna……………….BB, thinking of you, wishing for quick recovery. Big Love.
Thank you Enheduanna and Fannie. I’m doing my best. I still don’t have my voice back, but I’ve gone a very stuffed up nose to going through boxes of Kleenex.
Here’s a bit of some good news:
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/devos-student-loan-forgiveness-obama-era-rule
From the article:
“The U.S. Education Department said it will forgive $150 million in federal student loans as part of a 2016 rule that Secretary Betsy DeVos previously tried to block.”
That is good news.
I’m going to post this even though I cry every time i see her face.
Monsters.
They are only dedicated to two ideas: enriching themselves and spreading pain and misery to everybody else.