Federal judge rules in state's favor in ACA challenge
Source: Tulsa World
A federal judge ruled in Oklahoma's favor Tuesday in a lawsuit challenging part of the Affordable Care Act.
Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt has said that parts of the law do not apply to Oklahoma and other states that did not set up their own health insurance exchanges.
The Eastern District of Oklahoma ruling by U.S. District Judge Ronald White can be appealed to the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Denver.
"Todays ruling is a consequential victory for the rule of law," Pruitt said in a statement. "The administration and its bureaucrats in the IRS handed out billions in illegal tax credits and subsidies and vastly expanded the reach of the health care law because they didnt like the way Congress wrote the Affordable Care Act. Thats not how our system of government works."
Read more: http://www.tulsaworld.com/news/health/federal-judge-rules-in-state-s-favor-in-aca-challenge/article_bfa615f2-6394-5e5e-a0fa-5edf07f28ee5.html
More coverage: The Oklahoman, Think Progress
mmonk
(52,589 posts)So what does the circuit court look like?
olegramps
(8,200 posts)So people in Red States don't give expanded coverage. Sorry, but its their own fault for electing fascists bastards. Just as I no sympathy for Republican workers who get laid off when they supported their own destruction.
mmonk
(52,589 posts)against them but the gerrymandering made it impossible to dislodge them.
Ex Lurker
(3,816 posts)and vice versa.
olegramps
(8,200 posts)These people were elected to because most of the people don't even bother vote and their constituency, even if it is a minority, does. The Republicans have pursued a program that begins at the city and county levels of government including education boards to dominate these offices. They have been very effective in controlling large blocks of fundamentalist voters getting them registered and to the polls.
NaturalHigh
(12,778 posts)Our governor was one of the few who refused the Medicaid expansion, even though the federal government would pay for 90% of its cost. She just doesn't care about poor people getting medical care. To be more succinct, she doesn't care about poor people.
quadrature
(2,049 posts)Obama? Congress? who?
why, try to trick someone else,
just to save 10%?
seems kinda cheap and cowardly
NaturalHigh
(12,778 posts)I just remember it somewhere.
progree
(10,921 posts)http://obamacarefacts.com/obamacares-medicaid-expansion.php
JoePhilly
(27,787 posts)freshwest
(53,661 posts)They have declared all out war on the '47%' no matter who they are. Their laws discriminating run people of color off as well. The great migration from the South to the North in the last century left the land in the hands of the fathers of these guys. They have a long term plan that has nothing to do with democracy, justice or the USA, or even their states. Just the oligarchs, and they see anything that prolongs the life of the poor to be, like Ayn Rand said, evil. We really have to wake up and look at the 'devil' in our midst. They are not going anywhere.
DhhD
(4,695 posts)canceled immediately?
Edited to add:
http://www.modernhealthcare.com/article/20140722/NEWS/307119923
vlyons
(10,252 posts)Not the end of the story I hope!
Ex Lurker
(3,816 posts)that circuit has a majority of Democrat appointees, so I imagine this will be struck down. Several more challenges are working their way through the system. When all is said and done, ACA will probably end up before the Supreme Court again. Perhaps as soon as this term. Certainly by the 2016 term.
littlewolf
(3,813 posts)ColesCountyDem
(6,943 posts)This case meets none of the usual criteria the USSC considersfor expedited appeal.
Ex Lurker
(3,816 posts)I have no confidence that SCOTUS will uphold the subsidies. Might as well drag out the process so people can have affordable healthcare as long as possible.
ColesCountyDem
(6,943 posts)Until Scalia or Thomas, e.g., kick the bucket and a Democratic POTUS gets to appoint a replacement, I'm OK with this taking time.
SoapBox
(18,791 posts)But then the citizens support the PukeBaggers even though it is completely against their own self interests.
People ARE stupid.
cheapdate
(3,811 posts)what kind of person does that.
davidpdx
(22,000 posts)We don't have to follow federal law.