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libtodeath

(2,888 posts)
Tue Mar 27, 2012, 08:30 PM Mar 2012

A question about the insurance mandate.

If the SCOTUS strikes that down,it will completely alter the cost scoring the CBO did on the bill.
Wasnt there a requirement for it to fall under reconciliation that it had to be revenue neutral or similar?
If I am right about what I remember will the whole thing have to go back to congress?

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A question about the insurance mandate. (Original Post) libtodeath Mar 2012 OP
That was about passing the bill. It passed. It's a done deal from Congress's perspective. n/t PoliticAverse Mar 2012 #1
I agree...it's out of their hands. Lochloosa Mar 2012 #2
Could it not be challenged in court as somehow passed illegaly or libtodeath Mar 2012 #3
Congress ruled that it passed, it passed. I don't see any such challenge likely. n/t PoliticAverse Mar 2012 #4
No, that won't send it back Yo_Mama Mar 2012 #5

libtodeath

(2,888 posts)
3. Could it not be challenged in court as somehow passed illegaly or
Tue Mar 27, 2012, 08:43 PM
Mar 2012

is it considered okay because congress acted in good faith on the presumption of constitutionality?

Yo_Mama

(8,303 posts)
5. No, that won't send it back
Tue Mar 27, 2012, 11:28 PM
Mar 2012

The individual mandate is a material part of the legislation, however, and so it is likely that the individual coverage portions of ACA would be changed.

Congress could choose to let the bill go into effect and just see what happens, because it is not at all clear that the revenue portions will work as designed anyway, depending on actual costs of health insurance. The estimated insurance payments now seem low, and CBO kind of messed on up on the income effect. They scored an increase in federal taxes for the non-deductibility of higher premium insurances, and the extra wages they think people are going to get (which isn't going to happen in this environment), but they forgot to deduct for the ledge effect for older self-employeds. That's pretty massive.

So it's up in the air.


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