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bluestateguy

(44,173 posts)
Wed Jul 18, 2012, 10:30 PM Jul 2012

Just as I thought, nobody is talking about NFIB v. Sebelius anymore

Predictably, it is now fading from the headlines since the media didn't get their sexy story of the health care law decimated or struck down completely. Now it is maybe a story every other day in the back pages of the newspaper.

Had the health care law been gutted or eliminated, there would have been a deafening echo every day until the election.

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patrice

(47,992 posts)
3. National Federation of Independent Business. But I don't get OP; is this concern trolling?
Wed Jul 18, 2012, 10:52 PM
Jul 2012

Is OP complaining that NFIB v. Sebelius isn't a problem?

freshwest

(53,661 posts)
7. What is concern trolling? You can PM me if this is a controversial term, but I don't understand. TIA
Wed Jul 18, 2012, 11:11 PM
Jul 2012

freshwest

(53,661 posts)
6. You talking about the group of state attorneys who sued? Somehow the business people got with them?
Wed Jul 18, 2012, 11:09 PM
Jul 2012

I thought the attorney generals based their complaint on a rights argument, or 10th amendment as baggers interpret it. I don't see the attorney generals cases as having anything to do with business.

They're supposed to represent their states and haha, their citizens. But I think they are wrong and were wrong, because there was always an opt-out clause in the ACA, they were just being political.

In all the cases, I am guessing the SCOTUS decision destroyed all of that. Now it's up to the federal folks to strike down all the state lawmakers trying to make political points against the ACA and Obama.

Are you saying you wish these suits were still going to go forward and prevent the ACA in some states? That's been settled already, too, with health exchanges.

Since you're not giving much details, perhaps some of the people who have really been into this will come and answer your question for you.


bluestateguy

(44,173 posts)
8. I had made a prediction on day of the decision June 28
Wed Jul 18, 2012, 11:16 PM
Jul 2012

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002868680

Prediction: the media will phase out discussion of Obamacare by early next week
and move on to other issues.

And yet if most or all of the law had been overturned, we would be hearing from the echo machine (including MSNBC) non-stop through election day.


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