U.S. Justices Decline to Hear Another Obamacare Challenge (Liberty University)
Source: Reuters
U.S. justices decline to hear another Obamacare challenge
By Lawrence Hurley
Mon Dec 2, 2013 10:03am EST
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear a broad new legal challenge to President Barack Obama's 2010 healthcare law.
The court rejected a petition filed by Liberty University, a Christian college in Virginia, which had raised various objections to the law, including to the key provision that requires individuals to obtain health insurance.
The justices upheld the constitutionality of a the individual mandate in a 5-4 ruling in June 2012.
Last week, the court agreed to hear two new cases in which employers have made religious objections to regulations implemented under Obamacare that require employers to provide health insurance that includes contraception for women. The case will be heard this term and decided by the end of June.
Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSBRE9B10II20131202
TreasonousBastard
(43,049 posts)Jehovah's Witnesses and others going to band together and complain about healthcare coverage being required at all?
The Watchtower covering its employees for transfusions? That's a lot worse than contraception, isn't it?
elleng
(130,956 posts)would help reason to prevail, imo.
TreasonousBastard
(43,049 posts)you never know.
I suspect that should the argument ever be made it wouldn't fail because of flawed logic but because the more cultish sects just aren't all that popular. The Court might hesitate at offending vast numbers of Catholics and fundie Protestants, but have no fear of offending the few Christian Scientists among us.
riqster
(13,986 posts)In order to dodge the requirements: http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024100657
underpants
(182,824 posts)They have ski slope now and a golden domed building (admin I am guessing) high atop a hill overlooking the expanding campus.
I commented to my wife, "what is tailgating like at their football games?....'hey can I have some more Kool Aid?"
TreasonousBastard
(43,049 posts)a problem we've known about for years, but what we don't know is how many are from Liberty U?
underpants
(182,824 posts)Thomas Road Baptist is its own little economy- if you are buying a car or insurance for example you buy from a church member, if you don't they know about it and let you know that they know. Likewise they hire other members kids.
JimboBillyBubbaBob
(1,389 posts)These boobs at Liberty are among the upper levels when using the monies provided by guaranteed federal student loans, yet they purport a challenge to the health care law. Chalk up another for the "Pulpit Pimps," as I read from another poster. Pulpit Pimps, can't get over it, sums it all up!
SoapBox
(18,791 posts)Oh...this gave me a great morning laugh!
bigdarryl
(13,190 posts)The mandate was upheld already.Funny how theres right wing idiots want to try and get the Court to reverse there ruling
longship
(40,416 posts)Christopher Hitchens
PatrynXX
(5,668 posts)smh
The justices upheld the constitutionality of a the individual mandate in a 5-4 ruling in June 2012.
hello editor? constitutionality of a the individual.... wait what?
jmowreader
(50,559 posts)Since repeal through Congress didn't work, they're using a two-pronged strategy.
Prong 1: attempt repeal through the courts. The goal is the same as controlled demolition: knock out enough of the essential elements making the structure work, and it will collapse. This one is different: they attempted to have the Supreme Court reverse the entire Obamacare ruling.
Prong 2: dissuade enrollment to the extent the system never gains economic viability and is cancelled because we're not getting our money's worth. The same thing could be said about the F-35 and they could pay for Obamacare a long time by reducing the F-35 budget by two planes...but as we all know, the Bible has nothing about healing the sick and lots about sending Air Force officers out to die in planes you can't see out the back of. This is the source of the don't-sign-up parties, Creepy Uncle Sam ads, news stories focusing on how bad the website is...