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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsKilling the ACA all at once would be more disruptive than a hard Brexit
Trump administration asks court to completely invalidate Obama's Affordable Care Act
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2019/03/26/trump-administration-asks-court-totally-repeal-obamas-affordable-care-act/?utm_term=.4f15e81cbc36
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2019/03/26/trump-administration-asks-court-totally-repeal-obamas-affordable-care-act/?utm_term=.4f15e81cbc36
Health care is 18% of GDP. The government and private health insurance markets would be thrown into chaos. It would be like eliminating the interstate highway system. Every consumer of health care would be adversely affected whether they get their health care through Medicare, Medicaid, individual insurance, or employee based insurance.
This is our hill to die on.
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Killing the ACA all at once would be more disruptive than a hard Brexit (Original Post)
DemocratSinceBirth
Mar 2019
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Trump administration asks court to completely invalidate Obama's Affordable Care Act
DemocratSinceBirth
Mar 2019
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SHRED
(28,136 posts)1. It would destroy the individual market
Premiums for everyone else would skyrocket.
DemocratSinceBirth
(99,716 posts)2. There aren't five votes in SCOTUS. There are four.
If Roberts flipped it would politicize SCOTUS and discredit them too, not as if it hasn't been politicized for years. SCOTUS would be seen as an auxiliary of the major parties.
watoos
(7,142 posts)4. What does the SC have to do with this?
DemocratSinceBirth
(99,716 posts)6. Trump administration asks court to completely invalidate Obama's Affordable Care Act
watoos
(7,142 posts)7. Yeah, I apologize, I looked it up.
They actually filed a law suit in Texas I think.
watoos
(7,142 posts)3. This is Kabuki theater,
designed to change the narrative away from releasing the Mueller report.
How is Trump going to abolish a law? Republicans have picked away at Obamacare to try to make it fail but Trump has no power to eliminate a law.
DemocratSinceBirth
(99,716 posts)5. SCOTUS could invalidate the law
watoos
(7,142 posts)8. Yeah, I apologize again,
I see the law suit. I thought this was just another attempt to change the narrative away from the Mueller report, but it is real.